Showing posts with label SCI Huntingdon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCI Huntingdon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Harlow's New Home...

Harlow Cuadra will spend the rest of his natural life at SCI Coal Township, a medium-security facility for male inmates that opened in May 1993. Ironically it's a much newer facility than were Joseph Kerekes was sent to, which is SCI Huntingdon that opened in 1889.

SCI Coal Township
1 Kelley Drive
Coal Township, PA 17866-1020

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Joseph Kerekes Goes to His New Home...

SCI Huntingdon

Convicted murderer Joseph Kerekes will now be spending the rest of his natural life at SCI Huntingdon.

SCI Huntingdon
1100 Pike Street
Huntingdon, PA 16654-1112
(814) 643-2400

SCI Huntingdon (Huntingdon County), opened in 1889, was modeled after the Elmira Reformatory in New York. Originally the Huntingdon Reformatory for Young Offenders, it was later used for "defective delinquents" until 1960. It was a maximum-security prison for men and housed capital case inmates until 1995. Today, SCI Huntingdon is a close-security institution.

So what is "close-security"?

Well according to Wikipedia: Under close security, prisoners usually have one or two person cells operated from a remote control station. Each cell has its own toilet and sink. Inmates may leave their cells for work assignments or correctional programs and otherwise may be allowed in a common area in the cellblock or an exercise yard. The fences are generally double fences with watchtowers, housing armed guards, plus often a third, lethal-current electric fence in the middle.