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The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Training Academy serves as a training area for prison employees working for the state and county. [14] It is located in Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, [15] [16] near Elizabethtown and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Harrisburg. The academy includes nine buildings on 265 acres (107 ha) of land. [14]
Somerset, Pennsylvania: Houses geriatric and mentally ill inmates State Correctional Institution – Mercer: Mercer, Pennsylvania: Motivational Bootcamp – Quehanna: Karthaus Township, Pennsylvania: Co-ed and six-month duration State Correctional Institution – Waymart: Waymart, Pennsylvania: Originally part Farview State Hospital.
State Correctional Institution – Benner Township, commonly referred to as SCI Benner, is a Medium-Security correctional facility for males located in Benner Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. [1] It is one of twenty six state-level correctional institutions of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections System. [2]
SCI Muncy is the diagnostic center for female offenders in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. It also houses the Young Adult Offenders program. [2] SCI Muncy has received some press coverage for its service dog training program. [4] As of 2019, the prison housed 1,472 prisoners, including 170 with life sentences. [5]
Operated by Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, it was named after the phoenix bird. [3] It cost $400 million to build, making it the most expensive state prison to be constructed in Pennsylvania history. [4] [5] It has a capacity of 3,830 prisoners, [6] and as of September 2018, its full time workforce numbered 1,200. [7]
Aerial view of the prison in 2024. The State Correctional Institution – Greene (SCI Greene) is a maximum security prison, classified as a Supermax, [1] located in Franklin Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, near Waynesburg, off Interstate 79 and Pennsylvania Route 21.
The State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill (commonly referred to as SCI Camp Hill) is a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections prison in Lower Allen Township, Cumberland County, near Camp Hill in Greater Harrisburg. [1] [2] Its current superintendent is Michael Gourley. It has over 2,000 inmates. [3]
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale is a 1500-bed correctional facility located outside Houtzdale in southern Clearfield County , Pennsylvania , along Pennsylvania Route 153 .