Eighty-four years after Pennsylvania built the State Correctional Institution at Graterford to house thousands of the offenders crowding Philadelphia's old Eastern State Penitentiary, contractors are tearing into the red slopes of the former Mennonite farms in Skippack Township to build a $400 million replacement.
Engineers from building-materials contractor Haines & Kibblehouse, based a mile away, are using cranes to fit prefab concrete cells, poured in nearby Telford by Oldcastle Precast, into future cell blocks, stacking them like Legos.
The crews are putting up the second-most-expensive facility Pennsylvania has ever built. Only the Convention Center cost taxpayers more, according to state General Services spokesman Troy Thompson. Read more here…
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