List of Pennsylvania state prisons

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)

• Eastern State Penitentiary, Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 1826-1880.

Young Adult Offenders male ages 15-20

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 - 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 - Greensburg	Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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 - Cresson	Cresson, Pennsylvania	Converted from a psychiatric hospital
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
SCI-Greene	Waynesburg, Pennsylvania	houses most of state's capital punishment inmates