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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 ...
Montgomery Education and Pre-Release Center (Closed 2004) North Coast Correctional Treatment Facility (merged with Grafton in 2011) Ohio Penitentiary (Closed 1984)
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]
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.
Stroudsburg was laid out by Colonel Jacob Stroud in 1799. Stroud's family founded Stroudsburg in the mid-1700s, and the town was incorporated on February 5, 1815. [3] Stroudsburg was the location of the lynching of Richard Puryear in March 1894. A Black railroad worker accused of murdering a white storekeeper, Puryear was lynched by a mostly ...
Dec. 11—WILKES-BARRE — A Monroe County man who fatally stabbed his friend in what was called a "savagely and senseless murder" in Rice Township was sentenced during an emotional hearing before ...
Federal Correctional Institution, Allenwood Medium (FCI Allenwood Medium): a medium-security facility United States Penitentiary, Allenwood (USP Allenwood): a high-security facility FCC Allenwood is located approximately 75 miles (121 km ) north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , the state capital.
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]