PHILIPSBURG/CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa — The Moshannon Valley Correctional Center will be closing its doors on March 31st.
Since it opened in 2006, the Moshannon Valley Correctional Center has been a large part of the surrounding economy.
Sadly, Clearfield County Commissioner John Sobel confirmed the prison will shut next week, leaving about 300 people without jobs next week. However, Sobel says they will have help finding a new position.
“The North Central Workforce Development (Board) is an entity that has already approached the prison and is working with employees, giving them opportunities to train, if they wish to go in another employment direction," he said. "In other words, to find and assist them to get other jobs, and one of the big ways they help is with training or retraining if you needed to go into another field of endeavor.”
The Philipsburg-Osceola Area School District will also be severely impacted, as they’ll lose the largest taxpayer in the district next Wednesday.
“The Philipsburg-(Osceola Area) School District which is obviously dependent on their property tax revenues to be able to educate the children served by their district is now going to have to make up for this lost tax revenues in some form or another and that’s obviously going to affect their ability to educate the children in their district,” Sobel said.
While there is an effort to find another use for the complex to help keep jobs in the area and help the schools, Sobel says nothing has come of it so far.
“The Moshannon Valley Economic Development Corporation is spearheading an effort to try and find some other use for the building, but no other use has been found at this point.”
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