Construction has begun on a new state correctional facility in Pennsylvania that will replace the aging Graterford prison in Skippack Township. The new prison in Skippack will include two complexes, ...

Pennsylvania has 25 state prisons after closing three in the last ... of security fence that will be a significant upgrade from Graterford’s 30-foot stone wall. The fences along the prison ...

Stony, old Graterford state prison, one of the nation’s largest with an inmate population bigger than most Pennsylvania municipalities, and its $400 million replacement, the State Correctional ...

Pennsylvania has 25 state prisons after closing three in the last five years. Department of Corrections officials say Graterford will be mothballed.

All female inmates are processed at the state prison at Muncy, in Lycoming County. Phoenix’s cells are slightly larger than Graterford’s 12-by-6-foot cells, but there will be less of them.

Work on SCI Phoenix, Pennsylvania's newest state ... Link said that simply wasn't a priority when Graterford, the state's fourth oldest operating prison, was built.

Officials with Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections say more men will be doubling up in single cells at Phoenix, a 3,830-bed facility. Graterford Prison and SCI ...

Over 2,600 inmates at an 89-year-old Pennsylvania prison are being ... began just after 9 a.m. Wednesday from the state prison at Graterford to the sprawling, $400 million complex at SCI Phoenix ...

(WPVI) -- We got our first look at Pennsylvania's newest correctional facility, which will replace the aging Graterford prison. The State Correctional Institution in Montgomery County was built ...

and that the recent deaths at Graterford remain under investigation. The spokeswoman for the local Troop K of the Pennsylvania State Police, which investigates prison deaths, referred questions ...

The state’s new top warden, Corrections Commissioner ... spot shakedowns of Graterford staff. Horn, who came to Pennsylvania from the New York penal system, said he inherited a department ...