State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale

State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale is a 1500-bed correctional facility located outside Houtzdale in southern Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, along Pennsylvania Route 153.

State Correctional Institution - Houtzdale

Location	Woodward Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
Security class	Medium-Security
Capacity	1,587
Opened	1996
Managed by	Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Building SCI Houtzdale

The facility cost $70 Million^{[citation needed]} 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.

Notable inmates

• Warren McGlone (alias Steady B) - Hip hop artist, convicted in the murder of Philadelphia Police Department officer Lauretha Vaird in a bank robbery

See also

• List of Pennsylvania state prisons

References

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