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State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania: Diagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989 State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon: Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: Opened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional ...
In the afternoon of March 1, reports reached Sheriff J. M. Kresge of a lynch mob gathering ten miles outside of town. The sheriff responded quickly, swearing in twenty-five special deputies, arming them, and positioning them in and around the jail. The mob reached Stroudsburg at 12:30 AM on March 2 and reached the jail at 1 AM. Many were drunk.
State Correctional Institution – Retreat is a former 350-bed Medium-Security [1] correctional facility for males. Located on the site of the former Retreat State Hospital, the facility is located about 12 miles south of Wilkes-Barre in the northeastern part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania .
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
On December 7, 2020, two correctional officers were injured after one was stabbed in the neck and eye by Abdulrahman el Bahnasawy (75868-054), a Canadian convicted of terrorism-related offenses in 2016. Both officers were taken via ambulance to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville and survived, with one losing an eye.
The Federal Correctional Institution, McKean (FCI McKean) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Pennsylvania. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male offenders.
Monroe County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 168,327. [2] Its county seat is Stroudsburg. [3] The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] The county was formed from sections of Northampton and Pike counties on April 1, 1836. [4]
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]