| Prison Name: | State Correctional Institution - Forest |
| Location: | Marienville, Jenks Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania |
| Classification: | Maximum-Security |
| Capacity: | 2,309 |
| Population: | 2,389 |
| Opened: | October, 2004 |
| Managed By: | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
State Correctional Institution – Forest is one of two identical correctional facilities in Pennsylvania that were constructed in the beginning of the twenty-first century to hold maximum-security male inmates. SCI Forest is located in the community of Marienville, in remote Forest County.
SCI - Forest and SCI-Fayette, which are identical in size and design, were constructed to accommodate overcrowding at SCI-Pittsburgh and SCI-Waynesburg, which were "mothballed"[1] after the opening of SCI Forest. Construction of the correctional facility cost $126 million.
| width=13% | Inmate Name | width=10% | Register Number | width=28% | Status | width=35% | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Jerome Wurst | EA5775 | Serving a 30-60 year sentence with possibility of parole in 2028.[2] [3] | Perpetrator of the 1998 Parker Middle School dance shooting in which he murdered teacher John Gillette.[4] [5] [6] |