United States · PA · Marienville
SCI Forest
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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
2004
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
2004
Region
PA
Security level
Maximum
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
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Reports
- marshall-project6 Jun 2016
was placed in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons. Then he was sent to SCI Graterford . Then to SCI Greene . Then to SCI Rockview . Then to SCI Smithfield . Then to SCI Forest . Then back to SCI Huntingdon . Then back to SCI Rockview . Then, finally, to SCI Frackville , where he is today. All this time, in all these facilities back and forth all over the state, Johnson was kept in
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 Forest
- PA DOC State Prisons
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections â State Prisons — Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7603146)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). SCI Forest. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/state-correctional-institution-forest
"SCI Forest." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/state-correctional-institution-forest.
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