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State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands

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Status
  
Open

Phone
  
+1 814-445-6501

Security class
  
Minimum-Security

Opened
  
1996

State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands

Location
  
Somerset Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Former name
  
Somerset State Hospital

Managed by
  
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Address
  
5706 Glades Pike, Somerset, PA 15501, USA

Similar
  
Somerset State Correctio, Somerset County Jail, Somerset Hospital, Western Correctio Institution, Meyersda Police Departme

State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands is a Minimum-Security facility located on State Route 31, about three miles east of the Somerset Interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. SCI-Laurel Highlands houses Minimum-Security Inmates, particularly older males and geriatric/mentally ill males.

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History

SCI - Laurel Highlands is on the campus of the former Somerset State Hospital, which closed in mid-1995. The facility was then converted into its current facility and opened in 1996.

Notable inmates

  • John du Pont - Murdered Olympic gold-medalist Dave Schultz.
  • References

    State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands Wikipedia