State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale

State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale is a 1500-bed correctional facility located outside Houtzdale in southern Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, along Pennsylvania Route 153.

The facility cost $70 Million[citation needed] to construct and, when opened in January 1996, had a bed capacity of 1,587.

As of June 2012 SCI Houtzdale is the third-largest correctional institution in the state of Pennsylviania holding upwards of 2,800 inmates.