Philadelphia Prison System - Riverside Correctional Facility (Women)

Philadelphia Prison System - Riverside Correctional Facility (Women) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 215-685-8146

RCF operates on the principles of direct supervision and unit management. Each unit management group includes a lieutenant, who serves as unit manager, and a sergeant, as well as treatment and clerical staff. Designed by the Vitetta Group, the three-story facility is comprised of a 143,000-square-foot housing building and a support building sized about 75,000 square feet. Each floor includes a recreation area, dispensary, multipurpose area, and food-delivery area. The podular design with precast cells is similar to that of CFCF. Inmates are housed two per cell, 64 or 128 per pod. The facility includes administrative and staff offices, classrooms for educational, computer, and vocational training, an intake and discharge area, and a gymnasium, in addition to areas for medical and behavioral health treatment, social service, group meeting, recreational, food-service, and maintenance areas, and law and leisure libraries. The medical and behavioral health offices were furnished fully and include a nurses' station, pharmacy, lab, dental, examination, x-ray, and emergency treatment rooms, as well as areas for AIDS counseling, records, equipment, and other storage.