State Correctional Institution – Retreat
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| Location | Newport Township, Luzerne County, near Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania |
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| Security class | Medium-Security |
| Capacity | 1,200 |
| Opened | 1986 |
| Closed | June 2020 |
| Managed by | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
State Correctional Institution – Retreat is a former 350-bed Medium-Security[1] correctional facility for males. Located on the site of the former Retreat State Hospital, the facility is located about 12 miles south of Wilkes-Barre in the northeastern part of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Opening of SCI Retreat
[edit]Opening of SCI-Retreat was the result of the commonwealth's overcrowding issue of the 1980s. The Retreat State Hospital was declining in patients and was closed in 1981 and planning for SCI-Retreat's conversion began. Similar conversions were made at Cresson Center (Now SCI-Cresson) and the former Waynesburg Youth Development Center (Was SCI-Waynesburg from 1985-2004). Retreat was the first correctional facility built since 1960. The correctional facility opened in 1986.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Upgrading: Renovation, Expansion begins at state's overcrowding prisons". - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 21, 1984 (Retrieved: 5/7/2011)
External links
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Above facilities are male-only unless noted by ♀(female) or ♂♀ (unisex) | |
