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| Location | Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania |
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| Security class | Close-Security |
| Opened | 1889 |
| Managed by | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon (SCI Huntingdon) is a close-security correctional facility, located near Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Mountains. SCI Huntingdon was, until the reopening of SCI-Pittsburgh, the oldest-operating state correctional facility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
History
The facility was opened in 1889 [1] and was modeled after the Elmira Reformatory in New York and was called the Huntingdon Reformatory for Young Offenders. SCI Huntingdon was used for " defective delinquents" until 1960, after that it became a maximum-security prison, housing Capital Case inmates until 1995. SCI Huntingdon is now a close-security institution.
Notable inmates
- George Feigley, sex cult leader, served part of his sentence at SCI- Huntingdon, [2] from 1983 to 1998. [3]
- Kermit Gosnell, abortion provider and convicted child murderer [4]
- Joseph Kallinger, who had initially been held at the state prison at Huntingdon until he attacked another inmate with a razor-studded belt. [5]
- William Dean Christensen, serial killer known as "America's Jack the Ripper". [6]
- Norman Johnston Escaped from SCI-Huntingdon August 2, 1999 and was captured 3 weeks later. He was convicted for the 1978 murders of 4 four teenagers to cover up a family burglary ring which were portrayed in the film " At Close Range" starring Sean Penn. [7]
- Cosmo Dinardo, 20-year-old serial killer that murdered 4 young men on his family's 90 acre Solebury Township farm in 2017 [8]
See also
References
- ^ "Huntingdon". Department of Corrections.
- ^ Kestler, Barbara (2008). "Music From the Old Prisoner's Head". prisoners.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2010.
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^ Feigley, George.
"Revenge Of The Clowns". Archived from the original on November 19, 2006. Retrieved July 13, 2023.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link) - ^ Hessler, Carl Jr (October 20, 2018). "Detective in spotlight as true crime film 'Gosnell' opens". AP NEWS.
- ^ "Triple Murderer Joseph Kallinger Dies in Prison". Associated Press.
- ^ "10 killings linked to Pa. inmate". Associated Press. February 17, 1985. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
- ^ "Killer Captured Nearly 3 Weeks After Prison Escape". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "The Untold Tale of Cosmo DiNardo's Descent Into Murder and Madness". February 25, 2020.
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