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The current Allegheny County Jail opened on April 29, 1995 at 950 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. This facility replaced the old jail that is located on Ross Street and Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .
The Allegheny County Workhouse was a prison that was located adjacent to the town of Blawnox, Pennsylvania. Its full name was "Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate Asylum". The first inmates were received in 1869, and the facility closed in 1971. The prison housed mostly inmates convicted of minor offenses.
Ed Biddle (left), and Jack Biddle, c. 1901 Brothers John E. Biddle (January 8, 1872 – February 1, 1902) and Edward C. Biddle (December 27, 1876 – February 1, 1902) were condemned prisoners who escaped from the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania using tools and weapons supplied to them by Kate Soffel, the warden's wife, (June 27, 1867 – August 30, 1909) [1] who fled with them.
Nov. 24—A North Versailles police officer is recovering from gunshot wounds, and the man accused of shooting the officer Friday morning is in the Allegheny County Jail. The officer was treated ...
His mother died in the Allegheny County Prison in 1983, he did not know his father and his stepfather was a drug dealer who was shot and killed during a robbery in 1982, according to court records
A Meadville man charged with raping an Allegheny College student on campus in 2019 sentenced to 13 to 40 years in state prison. A Meadville man charged with raping an Allegheny College student on ...
Jordan Correction (historically known as the "Western Penitentiary," "Western Pen," and "The Wall") was a low-to-medium security correctional institution, operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, [1] [failed verification] located about five miles west of Downtown Pittsburgh and within city limits.
The jail sequences were filmed in both the Allegheny County Courthouse and inside and outside of the old Allegheny County Jail for three days, and prisoners there were used as extras in the movie. The film was entered in the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. [2]