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Dauphin County PA Prison basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 717-780-6800
This facility is for adult inmates.
The Dauphin County PA Prison is a medium-security detention center located at 501 Mall Rd Harrisburg, PA which is operated locally by the Dauphin County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both. Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. Dauphin County accepts inmates from surrounding towns, municipalities, the US Marshal's Service and the Harrisburg Police Department who do not have their own long-term lock-up.
Dauphin County Prison is a local adult detention facility, which has an average daily population of approximately 1000 and provides for the care, custody and control of both pre-trial detainees and sentenced offenders. Above and beyond providing a safe, secure environment for inmates and staff, Dauphin County is committed to exerting a positive influence on the community in a number of ways:
- Counseling and programming within the facility allow offenders to deal with the addictions and behaviors which brought them to prison, and to refrain from returning to the same lifestyle upon release, thereby helping them break the cycle of re-incarceration, and lightening the tax burden on the public.
- Life skills and educational classes offered to the inmates help them prepare to deal with the needs and stress of everyday life, and to seek gainful employment upon release, thus becoming tax-paying citizens and productive members of society.
- Inmate work crews provide services to the community by assisting county agencies or municipalities with various projects, cleaning up litter, growing produce for donation to soup kitchens to help feed the hungry, and after heavy snowfalls, clearing snow from the township's fire hydrants and shoveling snow for aged or disabled individuals.
The Prison's philosophy is not to warehouse individuals, but rather to offer programs that will enhance the incarcerated individuals' abilities to deal with normal everyday activities while providing offenders with the opportunity to "give back" to the community.
