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 ...

Pennsylvania has 25 state prisons after closing three in the last five years. Department of Corrections officials say Graterford will be mothballed. If you purchase a product or register for an ...

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 ...

The prison called Phoenix, Pennsylvania’s newest ... to be ready before emptying parts of the aging Graterford prison next door. State officials have already moved more than 1,000 inmates ...

who started as a corrections officer at Graterford in 1997 and returned a few weeks ago to aid in the transition. Graterford, which opened in 1929 to accommodate overflow from Eastern State ...

The State Correctional Institution is slated to be built near the existing Graterford prison in Skippack Township, on property already owned by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Department ...

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 ...

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 ...

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