List of Pennsylvania state prisons

This is a list of state prisons in Pennsylvania. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Historical (closed)

Young adult offenders male ages 15–20

Institution Name Location Security Level
State Correctional Institution - Pine Grove Indiana, Pennsylvania Maximum Security

Adult female institutions

Institution Name Location Notes
State Correctional Institution - Cambridge Springs Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania minimum security
State Correctional Institution - Muncy Muncy, Pennsylvania close security houses all female capital punishment inmates & diagnostic and classification center for women

Adult male institutions

Minimum security

Institution Name Location Notes
State Correctional Institution - Laurel Highlands Somerset, Pennsylvania houses geriatric and mentally ill inmates
State Correctional Institution - Mercer Mercer, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania minimum to lower-medium security male inmates needing drug rehabilitation. Opened 1882 and originally called Penitentiary of Western Pennsylvania.
Motivational Bootcamp - Quehanna Karthaus Township, Pennsylvania Co-Ed and six month duration
State Correctional Institution - Waymart Waymart, Pennsylvania originally part Fairview State Hospital. Has Forensic Treatment Unit & houses inmates with mental disorders who require inpatient psychiatric care and treatment. The 1989 riot at the State Correctional Institution - Camp Hill expedited the opening.

Medium security

Institution Name Location Notes
State Correctional Institution - Albion Albion, Pennsylvania Also close-security
State Correctional Institution – Benner Benner Township, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Coal Township Coal Township, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Chester Chester, Pennsylvania Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance abuse 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 Frackville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Retreat Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania Converted from a psychiatric hospital in 1981
State Correctional Institution - Rockview Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Begun in 1912 and opened in 1915 was originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries
State Correctional Institution - Somerset Somerset, Pennsylvania

Close security

Institution Name Location Notes
State Correctional Institution - Camp Hill Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Diagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989
State Correctional Institution - Huntingdon Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Opened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional Facility
State Correctional Institution - Smithfield Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Maximum security

Institution Name Location Notes
State Correctional Institution - Fayette LaBelle, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Forest Marienville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Frackville Frackville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Graterford Graterford, Pennsylvania Opened 1929 Pennsylvania's largest prison and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.

Supermax security

Institution Name Location Notes
SCI-Greene Waynesburg, Pennsylvania Houses most of state's capital punishment inmates