United States · PA · Chester
SCI Chester
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State Correctional Institution operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1998
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1998
Region
PA
Security level
Medium
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
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Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
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Data completeness
62%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- PA DOC â SCI Chester
- PA DOC State Prisons
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections â State Prisons — Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7603141)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). SCI Chester. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/state-correctional-institution-chester
"SCI Chester." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/state-correctional-institution-chester.
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