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The current Allegheny County Jail opened on April 29, 1995, at 950 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. This facility replaced the old jail that is located on Ross Street and Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .
The present facility opened on its current site in 1882, operating as one of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's first correctional facilities, which at the time, held some maximum-security inmates. In January 2005, after transferring the inmates to SCI-Fayette, [5] the facility was mothballed. In 2007, the facility re-opened with its current ...
Joseph Kallinger, who had initially been held at the state prison at Huntingdon until he attacked another inmate with a razor-studded belt. [5] William Dean Christensen, serial killer known as "America's Jack the Ripper". [6] Norman Johnston Escaped from SCI-Huntingdon August 2, 1999 and was captured 3 weeks later.
Somerset, Pennsylvania: Houses geriatric and mentally ill inmates State Correctional Institution – Mercer: Mercer, Pennsylvania: Motivational Bootcamp – Quehanna: Karthaus Township, Pennsylvania: Co-ed and six-month duration State Correctional Institution – Waymart: Waymart, Pennsylvania: Originally part Farview State Hospital.
FCI Loretto is located in Allegheny Township, Cambria County, [1] in southwest Pennsylvania, between Altoona and Johnstown, 70 miles (110 km) east of Pittsburgh. [2] As of 2016, most prisoners have sentences related to illegal drugs. As of that year, the average sentence length is 12 years, and some prisoners are serving life sentences. [3]
La Vista Correctional Facility (LVCF) is a state prison located in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado, owned and operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections. [1] The facility partially opened in April 2006, ramping up to its maximum capacity of 564 inmates. La Vista is primarily a medium security facility for women.
Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail Architectural Records, 1883-1948, AIS.1980.20, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh Smoke Control Lantern Slide Collection, University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center, AIS.1978.22, Digital Research Library
The Fayette State Correctional Institution is a 2,000 bed maximum-security prison located in a remote section of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.The prison is located southeast of Pittsburgh and was built to replace two institutions [1] (SCI-Waynesburg and SCI-Pittsburgh) to make the Commonwealth's prison system more energy-efficient.