“(We’re) making sure that all doors, windows and openings are secured,” Siko said. An additional gate has been installed, and padlocks have been added to existing gates. Township officials are focusing on bulking up security at the 350,000-square-foot facility. It closed in June 2013, with state officials citing maintenance costs and a declining inmate population as reasons for the closure.
The medium-security prison was built to hold 900 inmates and employed 360 people.
“The goal still for this project is to get the building knocked down as quickly as we possibly can,” Siko said. to clean up and manage the property for future use. Hempfield plans to demolish all the buildings on the site and is working with the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp. The township supervisors announced the plans to purchase the 96-acre property on Route 119 between Youngwood and Greensburg for $3.5 million at a meeting in late June. “There are a lot of keys to a prison, I found out,” township manager Aaron Siko joked at a meeting this week. Hempfield officially received a full box of keys to the former SCI Greensburg state prison facility after closing on the property last week.
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