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| Location | Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, US |
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| Security class | Close security |
| Opened | 1889 |
| Managed by | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
| Website | pa |
The State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon [1] (SCI Huntingdon) is a close-security correctional facility in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, in the Appalachian Mountains. SCI Huntingdon is the oldest state correctional facility in continuous operation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The facility was opened in 1889 [2] and was modeled after the Elmira Reformatory in New York and was called the Huntingdon Reformatory for Young Offenders. SCI Huntingdon was used for "defective delinquents" until 1960, after that it became a maximum-security prison, housing Capital Case inmates until 1995. SCI Huntingdon is now a close-security institution.
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