State Correctional Institution – Waynesburg was a

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minimum security prison in Morgan Township,

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near Waynesburg. The property had of land. As a men's prison it had 220 employees and approximately 450 prisoners.State Prisons
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. Retrieved on October 26, 2018.

History

It opened as a minimum security women's prison in July 1984 in a former

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youth correctional facility. Women were transferred to SCI Cambridge Springs in 1992, and that year SCI Waynesburg became a men's prison. Circa 2003 the yearly cost to house prisoners at Waynesburg was $32,685, while the overall Pennsylvania DOC statewide cost was $28,237 and the average cost for its medium security prisons was $21,500. The process of its closing was to begin in August 2003 and finish by some time in 2004. Basalt Trap Rock Co. bought the prison property for $990,000;

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approved the sale in July 2005.

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* Greene County, Pennsylvania category:State prisons in Pennsylvania Women's prisons in Pennsylvania 1984 establishments in Pennsylvania 2003 disestablishments in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-stub