List of Pennsylvania state prisons

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This is a list of state prisons in Pennsylvania. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Historical (closed)

• State Correctional Institution – Greensburg, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Closed in 2013
• Eastern State Penitentiary, Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• State Correctional Institution – Cresson, Cresson, Pennsylvania, Converted from a psychiatric hospital. Closed in 2013
• Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 1826–1880.

Young adult offenders male ages 30–40

Institution Name	Location	Security Level
State Correctional Institution – Pine Grove	Indiana, Pennsylvania	Maximum Security

Adult female institutions

Institution Name	Location	Notes
State Correctional Institution – Cambridge Springs	Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania	minimum security
State Correctional Institution – Muncy	Muncy, Pennsylvania	close security houses all female capital punishment inmates & diagnostic and classification center for women

Adult male institutions

Minimum security

Institution Name	Location	Notes
State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands	Somerset, Pennsylvania	houses geriatric and mentally ill inmates
State Correctional Institution – Mercer	Mercer, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	minimum to lower-medium security male inmates needing drug rehabilitation. Opened 1882 and originally called Penitentiary of Western Pennsylvania.
Motivational Bootcamp – Quehanna	Karthaus Township, Pennsylvania	Co-Ed and six-month duration
State Correctional Institution – Waymart	Waymart, Pennsylvania	originally part Fairview State Hospital. Has Forensic Treatment Unit & houses inmates with mental disorders who require inpatient psychiatric care and treatment. The 1989 riot at the State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill expedited the opening.

Medium security

Institution Name	Location	Notes
State Correctional Institution – Albion	Albion, Pennsylvania	Also close-security
State Correctional Institution – Benner	Benner Township, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Coal Township	Coal Township, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Chester	Chester, Pennsylvania	Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance abuse and be tobacco free
State Correctional Institution – Dallas	Dallas, Pennsylvania	Was originally designed for "defective delinquents"
State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale	Houtzdale, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy	Frackville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Retreat	Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania	Converted from a psychiatric hospital in 1981
State Correctional Institution – Rockview	Bellefonte, Pennsylvania	Begun in 1912 and opened in 1915 was originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries
State Correctional Institution – Somerset	Somerset, Pennsylvania

Close security

Institution Name	Location	Notes
State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill	Camp Hill, Pennsylvania	Diagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989
State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon	Huntingdon, Pennsylvania	Opened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional Facility
State Correctional Institution – Smithfield	Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Maximum security

Institution Name	Location	Notes
State Correctional Institution – Fayette	LaBelle, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Forest	Marienville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Frackville	Frackville, Pennsylvania
State Correctional Institution – Graterford	Graterford, Pennsylvania	Opened 1929 Pennsylvania's largest prison and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.

Supermax security

Institution Name	Location	Notes
State Correctional Institution – Greene	Waynesburg, Pennsylvania	Houses most of state's capital punishment inmates