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The female unit is not in the main prison perimeter. [3] SCI Phoenix is one of two prisons that share Pennsylvania's death row. [10] The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections anticipated that most of the prisoners would be from the area of Philadelphia, and currently SCI Phoenix is the state prison closest to Philadelphia. [11]
The prison, described by Joseph Stefano of The Philadelphia Inquirer as the primary state prison serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area, [4] once housed a small number of male death row inmates. [5] Graterford closed in 2018 and was replaced by SCI Phoenix.
As of 2024 male death row inmates are housed at SCI Phoenix and SCI Somerset. [13] Previously death row inmates were held at SCI Greene, which housed most men in this category. [12] As of 2015, 80% of all Pennsylvania death row inmates were held at Greene. [12] At some point all SCI Greene death row inmates were moved to Phoenix. [13]
Cavalcante woke up Thursday inside the State Correctional Institution Phoenix, a maximum-security facility in Montgomery County, which once also housed the likes of disgraced comedian Bill Cosby ...
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A grieving father says he wants to know what led to the death of his 22-year-old son on the day he was supposed to be released from an Alabama correctional facility.
SCI Phoenix Harvey Miguel Robinson (born December 6, 1974) is an American serial killer currently imprisoned on death row in Pennsylvania . He was 18 when he committed his violent spree, killing three and injuring two.
A judge ruled that Banks was mentally incompetent for execution or to assist his attorneys in seeking clemency. He would continue to be held in a restricted housing unit at Graterford prison. As of September 2017, he was still on death row in Pennsylvania. [9] He was later transferred to SCI-Phoenix in May 2018. [14]