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)

State Correctional Institution - Greensburg, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Closed in 2013
Eastern State Penitentiary, Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution - Cresson, Cresson, Pennsylvania, Converted from a psychiatric hospital. Closed in 2013
Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 1826–1880.

Young adult offenders male ages 30–40

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

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections prisons

Maximum security	Fayette Forest Frackville Graterford Greene (supermax)

Close security	Camp Hill Huntingdon Smithfield

Medium security	Albion Benner Coal Township Chester Dallas Houtzdale Mahanoy Retreat Rockview Somerset

Minimum security	Laurel Highlands Mercer Pittsburgh Motivational Bootcamp – Quehanna♂♀ Waymart

Female institutions	Cambridge Springs♀ Muncy♀

Private	George W. Hill

Closed	Eastern State Penitentiary Cresson Greensburg Western State Penitentiary

Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female) or ♂♀ (unisex)

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