State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy

State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy is a 1,000 cell, all male, Medium-Security, correctional facility located along Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

Construction of SCI-Mahanoy
Mahanoy was one of four 1,000-bed medium-security correctional facilities constructed in Pennsylvania around the same time. The facility cost $117 Million to construct and is on a 222-acre tract of land that was originally leased by the county commissioners. Construction began in July 1991 and the prison opened two years later.

Notable inmates

 * Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the murder of Daniel Faulkner
 * Mark Canty, convicted in the Murder of Lauretha Vaird
 * David Freeman, convicted in the Freeman family murders
 * Joshua Komisarjevsky, convicted in the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders
 * Robert Nauss, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Lande