Prison Place

SCI Muncy P.O. Box 180 Muncy, PA 17756 (570) 546-3171 SCI Muncy (Lycoming County, 15 miles from Williamsport) is the diagnostic and classification center for the state's female inmates. It was originally opened in 1920 as The Muncy Industrial Home, a training school for female offenders between the...

SCI Cambridge Springs 451 Fullerton Avenue Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 (814) 398-5400 SCI Cambridge Springs (Crawford County), opened in 1992, was formerly the Polish National Alliance College before being purchased by the Commonwealth in 1990. The campus was converted into a minimum-security facility...

Quehanna Bootcamp HC box 32 Karthaus, PA 16845 (814) 263- 4125 The Quehanna Motivational Boot Camp opened in June 1992 as the department's first military-style motivational boot camp. Inmates assigned to the boot camp undergo a rigid six-month disciplinary and training program which, if successfully...

SCI Waymart P.O. Box 256, Route #6 Waymart, PA 18472 (570) 488-5811 SCI Waymart is located in a building complex that was formerly part of Farview State Hospital. Pressed into operation ahead of schedule following the 1989 Camp Hill riot, the joint on-site operation of a state prison and state mental...

SCI Somerset 1590 Walters Mill Road Somerset, PA 15510-0001 (814) 443-8100 A medium-security facility for male inmates, SCI Somerset opened in 1993. Directions to SCI Somerset From PA Turnpike Exit 110, go straight to the fourth light, turn left, go about one-quarter mile at "Y" in the road...

SCI Smithfield 1120 Pike Street, P.O. Box 999 Huntingdon, PA 16652 (814) 643-6520 SCI Smithfield (Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County) was constructed on the reservation surrounding SCI Huntingdon. Opened in 1988, it is a close-security facility for men. Located North of SCI Huntingdon on Pike Street...

SCI Rockview Box A Bellefonte, PA 16823-0820 (814) 355-4874 SCI Rockview (Centre County, five miles from Bellefonte) was begun in 1912 and opened in 1915. Originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries, it became instead the branch prison for Western Penitentiary, housing lesser security...

SCI Retreat 660 State Route 11 Hunlock Creek, PA 18621 (570) 735-8754 The State Correctional Institution at Retreat is located in Luzerne County, about 11 miles south of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., along the Susquehanna River and U.S. Route 11. It was opened in 1988 on the site of the Retreat State Hospital which...

SCI Pittsburgh P.O. Box 99901 Pittsburgh, PA 15233 (412) 761-1955 SCI Pittsburgh, formerly known as Western Penitentiary, opened in 1882 and operated until it was mothballed in January 2005. It was reopened again -- as a facility housing minimum to lower-medium security male inmates needing alcohol and...

SRCF Mercer 801 Butler Pike Mercer, PA 16137 (724) 662-1837 Geographic Location: The State Regional Correctional Facility at Mercer is located in the northwestern section of Pennsylvania in Findley Township, Mercer County. It is about a mile and a quarter southeast of the county seat in Mercer, Pennsylvania...