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SCI Frackville
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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
1987
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1987
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
A 2016 complaint alleged that an inmate was kept in solitary confinement in isolated cells at SCI Frackville after transfers through multiple state facilities.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Reports
- marshall-project6 Jun 2016
ford . 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 solitary confinement, in one isolated cell after another, the complaint alleges. Since the
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 Frackville
- PA DOC State Prisons
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Pennsylvania Department of Corrections â State Prisons — Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7603147)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). SCI Frackville. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/state-correctional-institution-frackville
"SCI Frackville." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/state-correctional-institution-frackville.
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