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According to the most recent capacity report, [2] there are 1,259 inmates at SCI Chester, making the facility at 107% capacity, of its complement of 1,018 beds, hence the facility is in excess capacity by 242. The average age of an inmate at SCI Chester is 38 and the prison employs 399 full-time staff. [1]
State Correctional Institution – Chester: Chester, Pennsylvania: Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance use and be tobacco free: State Correctional Institution – Dallas: Dallas, Pennsylvania: Was originally designed for "defective delinquents" State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale: Houtzdale, Pennsylvania
The escape of a convicted murderer from a Chester County correctional facility in late August is not the only incident of its kind in Pennsylvania in the past few months.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC) is the Pennsylvania state agency that is responsible for the confinement, care, and rehabilitation of approximately 37,000 inmates at state correctional facilities funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
At the 1,990-inmate SCI Albion in 2022, the prison recorded a total of 47 allegations of inmate-on-inmate nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contact or sexual harassment, according to the ...
The manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante, an escaped prisoner on the loose in Chester County, Pa., has stretched nearly two weeks with hundreds of law enforcement officers searching for him.
The Chester County Prison was built in 1959 to replace the previous county jail, which was declared unsafe in 1951. The new prison was designed to support medium and maximum security prisoners, with separate housing for male and female inmates, as well as juveniles. In 1983, parts of the prison were renovated and expanded.
The lawsuit accuses prison officials at SCI Fayette, a Pennsylvania state prison, of placing inmates into confinement based on secret evidence, leaving them unable to challenge their placement.