The Lackawanna County Prison will house Susquehanna County inmates under an agreement commissioners recently approved ...

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

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

Graterford state prison in Montgomery County ... Open for more than a century, the Pennsylvania Prison Society said Rockview is in “serious disrepair.” The nonprofit’s prison monitoring ...

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 Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has assumed custody ... opened in July 2018 to replace the aging State Correctional Institution Graterford. Cavalcante escaped Aug. 31 from an exercise ...

An officer who was in a watchtower is on administrative leave, as prison officials review what ... searching on foot and horseback. Image The Pennsylvania State Police searched the woods and ...

He was taking a college seminar in a prison in Graterford ... Inside block D at the State Correctional Institution in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania on June 1, 2018.Lauren A. Little—Reading Eagle ...

Pennsylvania, which has shuttered state prisons in Hempfield ... Although the Department of Corrections closed SCI Graterford outside of Philadelphia in 2018, it was replaced by a new facility.

The Pennsylvania prison system will ban all ... In July 2018, more than 2,500 inmates moved from the state prison at Graterford, a facility constructed in 1929 in Skippack Township, Montgomery ...

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