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Detention Center

 

For information on inmates at this facility, contact Community Justice & Outreach at:  (215) 685-8995 or (215) 685-7711.


The Detention Center includes 4 dormitories and 3 cellblocks and a 99-bed Prison Health Services Wing (PHSW), where inmates requiring medical and behavioral health inpatient treatment are housed and clinics are conducted for PPS inmates.

 

The Detention Center opened in 1963, replacing the defunct Moyamensing Prison as the intake center for the Philadelphia Prison System.  The Detention Center served as the PPS' male intake center until the intake function was transferred to CFCF in 1995.  Since then, the facility has housed mostly minimum-custody adult males.  The Detention Center continues to serve as the reception center for inmates serving weekend sentences at Alternative and Special Detention.

 

 

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FACILITY WARDEN~

Warden
Joyce Adams  
Phone: (215) 685-8580
Fax: (215) 685-8578

 

Deputy Wardens
Patricia Powers
Phone: (215) 685-8685
Fax: (215) 685-8578

 

Eugene Thompson
Phone: (215) 685-8770
Fax: (215) 685-8578


FACILITY CONTACT~

8201 State Road
Philadelphia, PA 19136

Phone: (215) 685-8580
Fax: (215) 685-8578

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FACILITY DETAILS~

General Information:
Opened:    1963

Custody Levels: 
Minimum, Behavioral Health, Hospital, Disciplinary/Administrative Segregation & Central Protective Custody