Lancaster County Prison
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The Lancaster County Prison is a county prison
Prison
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 located in Lancaster
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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, Pennsylvania
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 in the United States
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. It is located on East King Street in Lancaster City.

A county prison
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...

 was originally built in 1737. The present medieval-style building replaced the earlier prisons in 1851, with Fulton Hall, of the Fulton Opera House
Fulton Opera House
The Fulton Opera House, also known as the Fulton Theatre or simply The Fulton, is a League of Regional Theatres class C regional theater located in historic downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania.-Building:...

 being built on the site of the earlier prison. The prison is still in active use.

With over 5000 admissions each year (and a similar number of discharges), Lancaster County Prison currently has beds for over 950 inmates, but has the capacity to accommodate more if needed.

The majority of those currently detained are imprisoned pending trial, the remaining 40% having already been sentenced. Sentenced inmates are charged $10 per day for their incarceration, under the Lancaster County Prison "prisoner cost recovery program", in operation since 1995.

It was used for public hanging
Hanging
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s until 1912.

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