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Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.
Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison. Graterford opened in 1929 and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.
[15] [16] In January 2020, Berks County settled, for $75,000, a related lawsuit brought by the victim against it for allowing the assault to happen. [17] In August 2016, 22 female detainees at Berks County Residential Center (a group calling themselves "Madres de Berks") went on hunger strike to protest the length and conditions of their detention.
Jan. 20—After nearly four years of preliminary discussions, the Berks County commissioners took the first official steps toward building a new county prison. The commissioners voted during their ...
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Berks County Residential Center; C. State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill; Chester County Prison; State Correctional Institution – Coal Township; D.
Jun. 17—A Spring Township man is accused of several shoplifting incidents in Berks County this year while on parole for robbery and has been sent to Berks County Prison. Scott K. Gentile Sr., 59 ...