State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy

State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy is a 1,000-cell, all-male, medium-security correctional facility located along Interstate 81 in Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. In December of 2025, Mahanoy held 2,277 inmates against a public capacity of 2,520 individuals, or 90.4%.

Construction of SCI-Mahanoy Mahanoy was one of four"Schuylkill To Get New State Prison" – Reading Eagle, 5/8/1991 (Retrieved: 5/7/2011). 1,000-bed medium-security correctional facilities constructed in Pennsylvania around the same time. The facility cost $117 million to construct and is on a 222-acre tract of land that was originally leased by the county commissioners. Construction began in July 1991 and the prison opened two years later.

Notable inmates Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the murder of Daniel Faulkner Mark Canty, convicted in the murder of Lauretha Vaird David Freeman, convicted in the Freeman family murders Joshua Komisarjevsky, convicted in the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders

State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy

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