State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy is a 1,000-cell, all-male, medium-security correctional facility located along
Interstate 81
Interstate 81 (I-81) is a north–south (physically northeast–southwest) Interstate Highway in the eastern part of the United States. Its southern terminus is at Interstate 40, I-40 in Dandridge, Tennessee, Dandridge, Tennessee; its nort ...
in
Schuylkill County,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
.
Construction of SCI-Mahanoy
Mahanoy was one of four
["Schuylkill To Get New State Prison" – Reading Eagle, 5/8/1991 (Retrieved: 5/7/2011).] 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
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook; April 24, 1954) is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia police officer C ...
, convicted of the murder of Daniel Faulkner
* Mark Canty, convicted in the
Murder of Lauretha Vaird
Lauretha A. Vaird (August 4, 1952 – January 2, 1996) was a Philadelphia Police Department officer who was shot dead by the rapper Christopher "Cool C" Roney during a botched armed bank robbery in January 1996. Roney attempted to rob the bank w ...
* David Freeman, convicted in the
Freeman family murders
On February 26, 1995, Bryan and David Freeman murdered their parents, Brenda and Dennis, and their younger brother, Erik, at their family home with the help of their cousin, Ben Birdwell, in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. For s ...
* Joshua Komisarjevsky, convicted in the
Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders
On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrators, Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky, initially planned only to ...
* Robert Nauss, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Lande
See also
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List of Pennsylvania state prisons
This is a list of state prisons in Pennsylvania. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Historical (closed)
* State Correctional Institution – Greensburg, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, ...
References
External links
Penna. Department of Corrections - SCI Mahanoy
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1993 establishments in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Prisons in Pennsylvania