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  2. List of Pennsylvania state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Chester, Pennsylvania: Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance use and be tobacco free: State Correctional Institution – Dallas: Dallas, Pennsylvania: Was originally designed for "defective delinquents" State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale: Houtzdale, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy ...

  3. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania's last execution was carried out in July 1999. The execution complex for Pennsylvania is on the grounds of the State Correctional Institution – Rockview. [5] Many male death row inmates are housed at the State Correctional Institution – Somerset, [6] while some are housed at the State Correctional Institution – Phoenix. [7]

  4. State Correctional Institution – Chester - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the project is according to PADOC to "incorporate ideas and concepts from Scandinavian prisons to determine their impact on staff and inmate wellness, prison culture, and recidivism." [3] The project incentivizes humane treatment over punishment, with focus on rehabilitation. The inmates in the Little Scandinavia department have ...

  5. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    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.

  6. State Correctional Institution – Muncy - Wikipedia

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    SCI Muncy is the diagnostic center for female offenders in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. It also houses the Young Adult Offenders program. [2] SCI Muncy has received some press coverage for its service dog training program. [4] As of 2019, the prison housed 1,472 prisoners, including 170 with life sentences. [5]

  7. State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. State Correctional Institution – Cambridge Springs - Wikipedia

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    In 1990, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased the former Polish National Alliance College campus and converted into a minimum-security women's institution. SCI Cambridge Springs opened in 1992, with the transfer [1] of inmates from SCI Waynesburg.

  9. Rehabilitation (penology) - Wikipedia

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    Rehabilitation is the process of re-educating those who have committed a crime and preparing them to re-enter society. The goal is to address all of the underlying root causes of crime in order to decrease the rate of recidivism once inmates are released from prison. [1]