Prison Name: | State Correctional Institution - Smithfield |
Location: | Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania |
Classification: | Close-Security |
Capacity: | 1380[1] |
Opened: | 1988 |
Managed By: | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
State Correctional Institution – Smithfield (SCI Smithfield) is a close-security[2] correctional facility for men on the grounds of SCI-Huntingdon, near Huntingdon in the Allegheny Mountains. SCI Smithfield was opened in 1988 during a "growth spurt of the "bursting at the seams" correctional system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.