Pennsylvania County Jail
Addresses
By:
Sandra Feigley Cofounder/Publisher
Pennsylvania loves to lock-up its citizens. In addition to many
dozens of state prisons, many
jails for children and countless local
jails and lockups, Pennsylvania has over 70 county jails. They
may be called "prisons," "correctional facilities," or "rectums."
It all amounts to about the same thing. They are the places where
accused persons are detained for relatively short periods and
where persons do sentences of less than two years and where
convicted persons await transportation to a state prison.
Most Pennsylvania county prisons are in very bad condition.
Thanks to the inept county government, Dauphin County Prison
is a horror of death, abuse, assault, disease and squalor. The
Philadelphia County prisons are close behind. They are
run by black thugs and gangs and mismanaged by a lazy staff.
Many county jails are very old. Twelve Pennsylvania
county jails, over 15% of the total in the state, were actually
built in the 1800s.
Juniata County Jail, built 1833! (while Andrew Jackson was
president! before the first wagon train to California!)
Schuylkill, built 1851 (10 years before the Civil War!)
Lancaster, built 1852
Vanango, built 1853
Union, built 1855
Potter, built 1869
Northampton, built 1871
Northumberland, built 1876
Columbia, built 1877
Elk, built 1885
Luzerne, built 1887
Fayette, built 1889.
The following is our listing of County jails with addresses, phone numbers and county or prison website links where they are available.
Maps to the jails are available from Google Maps. Just insert the zip code of the place you want. It's great!
Adams County Jail 45 Major Bell Lane Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-334-7671
Allegheny County Jail 950 Second Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15219
412-350-2000
and
Allegheny County Jail 5th Avenue and Ross Street Pittsburgh, PA 15219
412-340-4451
Armstrong County Jail 171 Staley's Court Road Kittanning, PA 16201
724-545-9222
Beaver County Prison 6000 Woodlawn Boulevard Aliquippa, PA 15001
724-378-8177
Bedford County Prison 425 Imlertown Road Bedford, PA 1552
814-623-2955
Berks County County Prison 1287 County Welfare Road Leesport, PA 19533
610-208-4800
Blair County Prison 419 Market Square Alley Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
Pennsylvania loves to lock-up its citizens. In addition to many
dozens of state prisons, many
jails for children and countless local
jails and lockups, Pennsylvania has over 70 county jails. They
may be called "prisons," "correctional facilities," or "rectums."
It all amounts to about the same thing. They are the places where
accused persons are detained for relatively short periods and
where persons do sentences of less than two years and where
convicted persons await transportation to a state prison.
