Graterford State Penitentiary

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Graterford State Correctional Institute

The State Correctional Institution at Graterford is located 31 miles west of Philadelphia. The facility, built in 1929, is Pennsylvania's largest maximum-security prison. In 1989, an $80 million construction program was completed that added a new administration building, a 28-bed infirmary and 372 additional cells.

In July 2018, a new facility, SCI Phoenix, opened adjacent to the original facility, and the population was subsequently moved there. The facility was fully shut down on July 15th, 2018.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Correctional_Institution_–_Graterford
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Coordinates:   40°14'0"N   75°25'54"W
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