State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands is a minimum-security facility in Somerset Township, Pennsylvania,[1] about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.
The prison houses minimum-security inmates, particularly geriatric and mentally ill males.
SCI – Laurel Highlands is on the campus of the former Somerset State Hospital, which closed in mid-1995.
[2] The facility was then converted into its current facility and opened in 1996.
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