Security class Close-Security Opened 1889 | Phone +1 814-643-2400 | |
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Location Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Managed by Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Address 1100 Pike St, Huntingdon, PA 16654, USA | ||
State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon is a close-security correctional facility, located near Huntingdon, in the Allegheny Mountains. SCI Huntingdon was, until the reopening of SCI-Pittsburgh, the oldest-operating state correctional facility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
History
The facility was opened in 1889 and was modeled after the Elmira Reformatory in New York and was called the Huntingdon Reformatory for Young Offenders. SCI Huntingdon was used for "defective delinquents" until 1960, after that it became a maximum-security prison, housing Capital Case inmates until 1995. SCI Huntingdon is now a close-security institution.
References
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