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George W. Hill Correctional Facility

Concord Township, Italy

George W. Hill Correctional Facility is a county jail and prison located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in the townships of Thornbury and Concord. It has a Thornton postal address, and is within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Founded in 1998, the jail was previously managed and operated by B

oca Raton, Florida's GEO Group until 2009 and was run by West Caldwell, New Jersey based company, Community Education Centers (CEC). In April 2017, GEO Group completed an acquisition of CEC, regaining management of the prison. Currently, the facility is managed by Delaware County, which took back control of the jail as of April 6, 2022 and generally houses inmates with sentences of two years less one day each or state sentences of five years less one day each. The facility was Pennsylvania's last privately operated county jail. The jail occupies fewer than 144 acres (58 ha) of land on a more than 414-acre (168 ha) plot of county property.

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