State Correctional Institution – Waynesburg

State Correctional Institution – Waynesburg was a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections minimum security prison in Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania near Waynesburg.[1][2]

The property had 117 acres (47 ha) of land. As a men's prison it had 220 employees and approximately 450 prisoners.[3]

History

It opened as a minimum security women's prison in July 1984 in a former Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare youth correctional facility. Women were transferred to SCI Cambridge Springs in 1992, and that year SCI Waynesburg became a men's prison.[3]

Circa 2003 the yearly cost to house prisoners at Waynesburg was $32,685, while the overall Pennsylvania DOC statewide cost was $28,237 and the average cost for its medium security prisons was $21,500. The process of its closing was to begin in August 2003 and finish by some time in 2004.[4] Basalt Trap Rock Co. bought the prison property for $990,000; Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell approved the sale in July 2005.[3]

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References
  1. "SCI Waynesburg." Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. March 12, 2000. Retrieved on October 26, 2018. "373 Prison Road Waynesburg, PA 15320"
  2. "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Morgan township, PA." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on October 27, 2018. Pages: 1, 2, and 3.
  3. "State Prisons." Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Retrieved on October 26, 2018.
  4. Pro, Johnna A. (2003-04-23). "State plans prison closings". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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