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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 Facility: State Correctional Institution – Smithfield
Prisoners were transferred to Rawlins in 1901; the prison was closed in 1903 and given to the University of Wyoming. [2] The university operated the property to conduct experiments in livestock breeding until 1989. In 1991, the property opened to the public. In 2004, it was established as Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site. [3]
Erie: First lighthouse on the Great Lakes built in the U.S. Current tower constructed in 1867 after the first two were demolished due to foundation problems. Deactivated in 1899, and now the centerpiece of a city park. 13: Erie Masonic Temple: Erie Masonic Temple: August 31, 2020 : 32 West 8th St.
Pennsylvania state prison inmate Caine Pelzer has spent the past 15 straight years in solitary confinement, including at the State Correctional Institution at Albion in western Erie County.
Correctional Industries - Commissary Distribution Center, which processes, packs and ships food orders to other prisons and employs 90 inmates [2] Community Work Program - Inmates contributed 6,783 hours of community work in 2012 for an estimated savings to the community of $169,575. [2]
Joseph Kallinger, who had initially been held at the state prison at Huntingdon until he attacked another inmate with a razor-studded belt. [6] William Dean Christensen, serial killer known as "America's Jack the Ripper". [7] Norman Johnston Escaped from SCI-Huntingdon August 2, 1999 and was captured three weeks later.
In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]