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 16-25

Institution NameLocationSecurity Level
State Correctional Institution – Pine GroveIndiana, PennsylvaniaMaximum Security

Adult female institutions

Institution Namlamberton


Location Notes

State Correctional Institution – Cambridge SpringsCambridge Springs, Pennsylvaniaminimum security
State Correctional Institution – MuncyMuncy, Pennsylvaniaclose security houses all female capital punishment inmates & diagnostic and classification center for women

Adult male institutions

Minimum security

Institution NameLocationNotes
State Correctional Institution – Laurel HighlandsSomerset, Pennsylvaniahouses geriatric and mentally ill inmates
State Correctional Institution – MercerMercer, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaminimum to lower-medium security male inmates needing drug rehabilitation. Opened 1882 and originally called Penitentiary of Western Pennsylvania.
Motivational Bootcamp – QuehannaKarthaus Township, PennsylvaniaCo-Ed and six-month duration
State Correctional Institution – WaymartWaymart, Pennsylvaniaoriginally 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 NameLocationNotes
State Correctional Institution – AlbionAlbion, PennsylvaniaAlso close-security
State Correctional Institution – Benner TownshipBenner Township, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Coal TownshipCoal Township, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – ChesterChester, PennsylvaniaOpened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance abuse and be tobacco free
State Correctional Institution – DallasDallas, PennsylvaniaWas originally designed for "defective delinquents"
State Correctional Institution – HoutzdaleHoutzdale, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – MahanoyFrackville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – RetreatHunlock Creek, PennsylvaniaConverted from a psychiatric hospital in 1981
State Correctional Institution – RockviewBellefonte, PennsylvaniaBegun in 1912 and opened in 1915 was originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries
State Correctional Institution – SomersetSomerset, Pennsylvania

Close security

Institution NameLocationNotes
State Correctional Institution – Camp HillCamp Hill, PennsylvaniaDiagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989
State Correctional Institution – HuntingdonHuntingdon, PennsylvaniaOpened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional Facility
State Correctional Institution – SmithfieldHuntingdon, Pennsylvania

Maximum security

Institution NameLocationNotes
State Correctional Institution – FayetteLa Belle, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – ForestMarienville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – FrackvilleFrackville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – GraterfordGraterford, PennsylvaniaOpened 1929 Pennsylvania's largest prison and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.

Supermax security

Institution NameLocationNotes
State Correctional Institution – GreeneWaynesburg, PennsylvaniaHouses most of state's capital punishment inmates
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