Fayette State Correctional Institution is located in LaBelle Pennsylvania. It is a maximum security prison that has a current population of approximately 2,054 inmates.
SCI Dallas is a medium security prison located in Luzerne County Pennsylvania. It houses approximately 2,150 adult male inmates. A good portion of the offenders here are serving life sentences with no possibility of parole. The facility is comprised of 51 buildings, 17 of which are housing units.
Coal Township State Correctional Institution is located in Northumberland County Pennsylvania. It is a medium security prison that houses about 2,333 adult male inmates and employs over 525 people. The facility is comprised of ten housing units located on 43 fenced in acres. Offenders are housed in multi occupancy cells and dormitories.
Chester State Correctional Institution is a medium security correctional facility located in Delaware County Pennsylvania. It is an all male facility that houses around 1,275 inmates. SCI Chester specializes in treating male offenders with alcohol or substance abuse problems. The facility is comprised of fourteen housing units each with pods which contain cells.
Camp Hill State Correctional Institution is a reception and classification center for male offenders. The facility is responsible for the initial intake of male inmates in the region. During initial intake, inmates are fingerprinted, evaluated, given a physical and mental health examination, and classified.
Cambridge Springs State Correctional Institution is a minimum security prison that houses adult females. This correctional institution can house approximately 1,020 inmates and employs over 311 people. Cambridge Springs is comprised of six units, five of which are occupied. Inmates are housed in dormitories and bunked cells.
Benner Township State Correctional Institution is located in Belefonte Pennsylvania. It is a medium security prison that houses over 2,107 inmates. Opened in April of 2013 this is one of the newest correctional facilities in Pennsylvania and received inmates from two facilities that closed, SCI Cresson and SCI Greensburg.
Visitation is an imperative part of an offenders rehabilitation. Inmates who have more visitors are more likely to have a strong support network available to them when they discharge from prison, and in turn are more likely to successfully reintegrate with society. Visitation has become vital to the success of an inmate's re-entry and the department of correction encourages friends, family members and positive role models to visit an inmate whenever possible.
Offenders incarcerated in Pennsylvania are allowed to correspond with the public and have no limit to the number of people they can mail or the amount of mail they can receive or send. Inmates may not correspond with other inmates, current or former employees/volunteers, or victims (unless they have prior authorization from the Facility Manager). Offenders are permitted eight stamps per month at no cost.
Albion State Correctional Institution is a mixed custody prison located in Erie County Pennsylvania that houses both medium security and close custody male offenders. Located in the Northwestern part of the state, Albion Correctional Institution currently holds 2,272 inmates.