Dallas State Correctional Institution Inmate Search and Prison Information

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The Dallas State Correctional Institution sits on a massive piece of land of 1,307 acres located in Dallas PA. The Dallas State Correctional Institution is a medium-security facility that is operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The superintendent of this facility is Kevin Ransom. There are 51 buildings on this property of which 17 of them are housing units. The housing unity is made up of the following:

• Multi Occupancy Cells
• Single Dormitory Style Housing Unit
• Special Needs Unit
• Restrictive Housing Unit (for inmates who are difficult to manage and need extra security measures taken.)

A majority of the inmates held at the Dallas State Correctional Institution are serving life sentences with no possibility of parole. This facility was established in 1960 and houses 2,140 inmates. The averages age of the inmates held in this facility is 43.39. 

The Dallas State Correctional Institution provides the following programs for its inmates:

• Adult Basic Education 
• GED 
• Veterans Affairs Unit
• Reading to your Children
• Sex Offender Moderate-High Intensity
• Offender Low Intensity
• Special Needs Sex Offender Booster Program
• Pre-Vocational Skills Class
• Back on Track Inside
• MoneySmart Program
• Therapeutic Community
• Outpatient Therapy Group
• Dual Diagnosis
• AA/NA/SOS Support Meetings
• Thinking for a Change
• Violence Prevention
• Batterer’s Intervention
• Mental Health Programs
• Mental Health Education
• Mental Health Management
• Mental Health Peer Group
• Mental Health Community Re-Entry Group
• Dual Diagnosis Group
• Mental Health Support Group

These programs and services are designed to help the inmates that participate and are willing to learn to succeed in life while they are behind bars and once they are released into the community. 

This facility also provides inmates with vocational training which is listed below:  

• Building Trades
• Accounting
• Barbering
• Business Occupation
• Welding School 
• Horticulture.

Vocational training allows inmates to learn a new skill that will allow them to do meaningful work once they are released.