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The Philadelphia House of Correction is one of five local prisons operated by the Philadelphia Prison System. It is located at 8001 State Road in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia . The facility was built in 1874 and rebuilt in 1927. Originally it was designed to the same pattern as the now-disused Eastern State Penitentiary ...
The Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center (PICC) opened in 1986 holds approximately 900 medium custody adult male inmates. It was the first PDP facility constructed to operate on the basis of unit management. PICC's is split into 13 housing units arranged around separate yards, laundry facilities, medical triage areas, counseling rooms, and ...
Holmesburg Prison. Coordinates: 40.037123°N 75.018779°W. Holmesburg Prison seen from the air. Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Ave in the ...
State Correctional Institution – Phoenix. / 40.23000°N 75.42000°W / 40.23000; -75.42000. The State Correctional Institution – Phoenix is a state prison in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, [1] with a Collegeville postal address, [2] in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Operated by Pennsylvania Department of ...
May 20, 2024 at 6:54 PM. A Pennsylvania woman pleaded guilty Monday to shooting a county prosecutor after a confrontation about a property transfer and was sentenced to several years in prison ...
The prison, located on Graterford Road off of Pennsylvania Route 29, was about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Philadelphia. [2] The prison, described by Joseph Stefano of The Philadelphia Inquirer as the primary state prison serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area , [4] once housed a small number of male death row inmates. [5]
Population. 1,500 (330 in prison camp) Opened. 1989. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Correctional Institution, McKean ( FCI McKean) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Pennsylvania. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
In August 1992, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the jail could damage efforts to revitalize portions of Center City. As of April 1993, prior to the opening of the detention center, there were 18 federal prisons throughout the U.S. that housed pretrial inmates awaiting proceedings in Philadelphia.