# 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, Closed in 2013
* Eastern State Penitentiary, Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Closed in 1971
* State Correctional Institution – Cresson, Cresson, Pennsylvania, Converted from a psychiatric hospital. Closed in 2013
* State Correctional Institution - Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Closed in 2017.
* State Correctional Institution - Retreat, Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania, converted from a psychiatric hospital. Opened 1980. Closed June 30, 2020.
* State Correctional Institution - Graterford, Skippack Township, Pennsylvania. Closed 2018.

## Young adult offenders male ages 16–25

| Institution Name | Location | Security Level |
| State Correctional Institution – Pine Grove | Indiana, Pennsylvania | Maximum Security |

## Adult female institutions

| Institution Name | Location | Notes |
| State Correctional Institution – Cambridge Springs | Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania | Minimum security |
| State Correctional Institution – Muncy | Muncy, Pennsylvania | Close security. Houses all female capital punishment inmates & diagnostic and classification center for women. |

## Adult male institutions
### Minimum security

| Institution Name | Location | Notes |
| State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands | Somerset, Pennsylvania | Houses geriatric and mentally ill inmates |
| State Correctional Institution – Mercer | Mercer, Pennsylvania | |
| Motivational Bootcamp – Quehanna | Karthaus Township, Pennsylvania | Co-ed and six-month duration |
| State Correctional Institution – Waymart | Waymart, Pennsylvania | Originally part Farview State Hospital. Has Forensic Treatment Unit & houses inmates with mental disorders who require inpatient psychiatric care and treatment. The 1989 riot at the State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill expedited the opening. |

### Medium security

| Institution Name | Location | Notes |
| State Correctional Institution – Albion | Albion, Pennsylvania | Also close-security |
| State Correctional Institution – Benner Township | Benner Township, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Coal Township | Coal Township, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Chester | Chester, Pennsylvania | Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance use and be tobacco free |
| State Correctional Institution – Dallas | Dallas, Pennsylvania | Was originally designed for "defective delinquents" |
| State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale | Houtzdale, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy | Frackville, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Rockview | Benner Township, Pennsylvania | Begun in 1912 and opened in 1915 was originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries |
| State Correctional Institution – Somerset | Somerset, Pennsylvania | |

### Close security

| Institution Name | Location | Notes |
| State Correctional Institution – Camp Hill | Camp Hill, Pennsylvania | Diagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989 |
| State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon | Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania | Opened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional Facility |
| State Correctional Institution – Smithfield | Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania | |

### Maximum security

| Institution Name | Location | Notes |
| State Correctional Institution – Fayette | La Belle, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Forest | Marienville, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Frackville | Frackville, Pennsylvania | |
| State Correctional Institution – Phoenix | Skippack, Pennsylvania | Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison. Graterford opened in 1929 and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970. |

### Supermax security

| Institution Name | Location | Notes |
| State Correctional Institution – Greene | Waynesburg, Pennsylvania | Houses most of state's capital punishment inmates |