Pennsylvania is unable to cope with its children.
The people
aren't smart enough to figure out how to teach them and manage
them.
The schools are failures in education.
They serve only
as hives of violence, disease and misery.
The children suffer.
The society suffers.
And Pennsylvania admits its failure by imprisoning hundreds
of our children.
Most are Afro-American, almost all are boys.
By 18 years-old, they're ready to be discarded by their society.
In Pennsylvania there's always the profit motive behind much
imprisonment.
The Abraxas Group profits from imprisoning
children and, of course, there are always the many jobs for the
jailers.
We think that many of these children could be saved instead
of being sacrificed to the adults' inability to cope.
The biggest and most vicious children's prison is operated
by the Department of Imprisonment.
- State Correctional Instutution - Pinegrove
189 Fyock
Road
Indiana, PA 15701
724-465-9630
The others are under the jurisdiction of the
Department
of Public Welfare and private contractors.
The publically operated children's prisons are listed here.
- Bensalem Youth Development Center
3701 Old
Trevose Road
Bensalem, PA 18020
215-953-6414
- Loysville Complex
RD 2, Box 365B
Loysville, PA
17047
717-789-3841
- Loysville Secure Treatment Unit
RD 2, Box 500
Loysville, PA 17047
717-789-5524
- New Castle Youth Development Center
Frew Mill Road
RR 6, Box 21A
New Castle, PA 16101
724-656-7300
- North Central Secure Treatment Unit
210 Clinic
Road
Danville, PA 17821
570-271-4705
- South Mountain Treatment Unit
Chambersburg,
PA
814-
(Child "sex offenders")
- Southeast Secure Treatment Unit
1824 West Strasburg
Road
West Chester, PA 19382
610-486-8344
- Southwest Secure Treatment Unit
Rt 1014, Box 94
Torrance, PA 15779-0094
724-459-1023
- Weaverville Intensive Treatment Unit
6710 Weaverville
Road
Northampton, PA 18067
- "Youth Development Centers"
(see above)
- Youth Forestry Camp #2
RD 1, Box 82
Hickery Run
State Park
White Haven, PA 18661
570-459-3871
- Youth Forestry Camp #3
RD 1, Box 175
James Creek,
PA 16657
814-658-3492
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