State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy
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| Location | West Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania |
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| 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. In December of 2025, Mahanoy held 2,277 inmates against a public capacity of 2,520 individuals, or 90.4%.[1]
Construction of SCI-Mahanoy
Mahanoy was one of four[2] 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
References
- ^ "MONTHLY POPULATION REPORT" (PDF). pa.gov. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- ^ "Schuylkill To Get New State Prison" – Reading Eagle, 5/8/1991 (Retrieved: 5/7/2011).
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Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female) or ♂♀ (unisex) | |