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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.
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.