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State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy

Prison in Pennsylvania, United States

Summary

Prison in Pennsylvania, United States

Field	Value
prison_name	State Correctional Institution - Mahanoy
image	[[File:Seal of the Department of Corrections of Pennsylvania.svg	150px]]
location	West Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
classification	Medium-Security
capacity	1,000
opened	July. 1993
managed_by	Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy is a 1,000-cell, all-male, medium-security correctional facility located along Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Construction of SCI-Mahanoy

Mahanoy was one of four 1,000-bed medium-security correctional facilities constructed in Pennsylvania around the same time. The facility cost $117 million to construct and is on a 222-acre tract of land that was originally leased by the county commissioners. Construction began in July 1991 and the prison opened two years later.

Notable inmates

Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the murder of Daniel Faulkner
Mark Canty, convicted in the Murder of Lauretha Vaird
David Freeman, convicted in the Freeman family murders
Joshua Komisarjevsky, convicted in the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders
Robert Nauss, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Lande

References

'''"Schuylkill To Get New State Prison"''' – Reading Eagle, 5/8/1991 (Retrieved: 5/7/2011).

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