Prison Name: | State Correctional Institution - Houtzdale |
Location: | Woodward Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania |
Classification: | Medium-Security |
Capacity: | 1,587 |
Opened: | 1996 |
Managed By: | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale is a 1500-bed correctional facility located outside Houtzdale in southern Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, along Pennsylvania Route 153.
The facility cost $70 Million to construct and, when opened in January 1996, had a bed capacity of 1,587. As of June 2012 SCI Houtzdale is the third-largest correctional institution in the state of Pennsylviania holding upwards of 2,800 inmates.