SCI Mahanoy

SCI Mahoney handles professional (attorney and agency) video visitation through the Superintendent's Assistant. To schedule one, call and provide the agency contact details the facility requires. Cancellations go through the same office. Staff cancel the appointment in the PA Inmate Visitation System (IVS), which triggers an automated cancellation notice. IVS verifies visitor identity through Keystone login, so be ready to authenticate when you sign in. For general visits, you'll need to be on the inmate's authorized visitors list and create an IVS account. Bring a current government-issued photo ID showing your date of birth, and make sure the address on your IVS account matches your ID. For video visits, join from the IVS link close to your scheduled time since sessions run back-to-back. There's no waiting area at the facility, so anyone not visiting should wait off-site.

SCI Mahoney relies on scheduled video visits and vendor services for communication. Professional visitors schedule a video visit by calling the Superintendent's Assistant and providing the required agency contact details. Need to cancel? Call the same office. Staff cancel the appointment in the IVS, and an automated cancellation email goes out to you. If you want to help a loved one get a tablet, know that the inmate must order it through the DOC commissary system. Your part is funding the purchase by sending money through JPay. Approved money orders are processed by JPay within ten business days, and you don't need a JPay account to send one. Many remote services also require a vendor account, identity verification, and facility approval.

You can send money to someone at SCI Mahoney through JPay or by using the facility lobby kiosk. If you prefer mailing a money order, JPay processes approved money orders even without a JPay account, though processing can take up to ten business days. Tablets at this facility support email, music, approved games, and eBooks. Inmates can add tablet balances using lobby kiosks or other approved deposit methods to pay for commissary and tablet items. You can't buy tablet content directly for an inmate. Most tablet content and purchases must be ordered by the inmate through the DOC commissary, so your role is typically adding funds. Purchases use "links," a micro-currency where one link equals one penny.