United States · Pennsylvania · Pittston Township
Pa Child Care
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Pa Child Care is a correctional facility located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Rated capacity: 60. Security level: Juvenile. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
PA Child Care was a juvenile detention center in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. It was opened in February 2003. It has a sister company, Western PA Child Care, in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Treatment at both facilities is provided by Mid Atlantic Youth Services, and both were involved in the kids for cash scandal in 2008. Gregory Zappala took sole ownership of the company when he purchased co-owner Robert Powell's share in June 2008.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
60
Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Corrections authorityPopulation held
juvenile-mixed
Opened
—
Region
Pennsylvania
Security level
Juvenile
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
- Summit AcademyButlerJuvenileCorrectional facility54% occupancy
- New Outlook AcademyPittsburghJuvenileCorrectional facility46% occupancy
- Lighthouse Juvenile Residential FacilityCooper CityJuvenileCorrectional facility73% occupancy
- Western Pa Child CareEmlentonJuvenileCorrectional facility
- Eufaula Youth CenterClaytonJuvenileCorrectional facility
- Youth Rehabilitation CenterChristianstedJuvenileCorrectional facility
Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
68%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7118313)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Pa Child Care. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pa-child-care
"Pa Child Care." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pa-child-care.
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