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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.
In March 2024, 44 of Pennsylvania's death row inmates were moved to Somerset. [2] They were previously at SCI Phoenix, which continues to house other death penalty prisoners. [3] Almost all of the prison is in Somerset Township, [4] while a small portion is in Brothersvalley Township. [5] The total land area is 240 acres (97 ha). [3]
Joseph "Joey" Daniel Miller (born September 2, 1964) is an American serial killer who raped and murdered at least five girls and women in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1986 and 1990.
Dauphin County (/ ˈ d ɔː f ɪ n /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census , the population was 286,401. [ 2 ] The county seat is Harrisburg , [ 3 ] Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth-most populous city.
Some inmates disliked the move as they feared they would be sharing cells with other inmates, while at Graterford they had single cells. [16] The population of Graterford was to reduce to 2,588 inmates by June 2018, [17] so that the transfer of inmates to Phoenix would not involve as many people, and Phoenix eventually opened, with 2,633 ...
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
Matthew Creaton, 35, died after hanging himself at the Erie County Prison on Feb. 19, 2020. His death spurred a federal lawsuit.
On April 22, 1987, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that a $40 million medium-security federal prison housing 500 to 600 inmates would be built in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The project was expected to create 250 new prison jobs and an estimated 144 non-prison jobs.