Pennsylvania has 23 state prisons that are well distributed ... a modern maximum security prison that replaced SCI Graterford. The tense environment doesn’t change because of its high-tech ...

The Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Graterford, also known variously as SCI Graterford (SCIG), Eastern Correctional Institution, Graterford Prison, Graterford Penitentiary ...

If these facilities close, history tells us the other jails will become more dangerous as their populations absorb more inmates.

The Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association ... closed SCI Retreat in Luzerne County and in 2018 SCI Graterford closed. In 2013 SCI Greensburg and SCI Cresson were also closed.

The state Department of Corrections (DOC ... Together with two other closed prisons, Greensburg and Graterford, Pennsylvania taxpayers have paid nearly $30 million since the last inmate was ...

Gabriela Bulisova Von Walden holds his infant son, Von Jr., after returning from state prison in Pennsylvania ... A former Graterford inmate, Williams is now a spokesman for the program Fathers ...