State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy

State Correctional Institution - Mahanoy

Location	West Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Security class	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] 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

See also

• List of Pennsylvania state prisons

References

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

External links

• Penna. Department of Corrections - SCI Mahanoy

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