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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.
Limiting the use of RHUs has proven to increase violence in prisons. On April 1, 2022, New York passed a law that severely limits, or in some cases eliminates, the ability to place inmates in RHUs.
The prison, located on Graterford Road off of Pennsylvania Route 29, [3] was about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Philadelphia. [2] 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]
A contemporary newspaper article reported that the governor donated his own dog to the prison to increase inmate morale. [2] On April 3, 1945, a major escape was carried out by twelve inmates (including the infamous Willie Sutton), who over the course of a year managed to dig an undiscovered 97-foot (30 m) tunnel under the prison wall. During ...
Teresa Boeckel, York Daily Record January 23, 2024 at 6:57 AM A 21-year-old inmate at York County Prison died on Monday afternoon in what is believed to be a suicide, according to the York County ...
The 40,600-inmate Pennsylvania state prison system received 135 allegations of inmate-on-inmate ... "approximately 6.1 percent of the total allegations made in PA DOC facilities in 2022 were ...
The Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto (FCI Loretto) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Pennsylvania. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male offenders. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The man, who was identified in at least one court document as being from State College, also gained access through an unsecured exterior window.