BISHOPVILLE (AP) A guard at Lee Correctional Institution has been arrested after authorities say she tried to smuggle marijuana into the facility in her hair. The Greenwood Index-Journal reports Uniqueqa Akeema James was arrested July 22 on charges of misconduct in office, possession ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Next month, South Carolina prison officials will test equipment that can jam the signals of contraband cellphones used by inmates, but the state prison director said he needs more technology than that to keep prisons safe. The jamming ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina prison officials say they sent 48 inmates who have caused major problems to a private prison in Mississippi. Authorities say the inmates are from prisons across the state. They would not detail how the inmates were ...

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The son of a man who died at Lee Correctional Institution has sued the Department of Corrections, saying his father died May 2016 after he failed to receive proper care. Carnell Glover Jr. filed the complaint in Lee County Circuit ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) Another inmate stabbed during a prison riot that left seven inmates dead is suing the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Media outlets reported 21-year-old Reakwon Latray Watson sued this week, about four weeks after the deadly riot at ...

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BISHOPVILLE (AP) Authorities say a South Carolina prison guard has been charged with assault and battery after he stomped on a handcuffed inmate. An arrest warrant said Antonio Burns attacked the inmate April 28 at Lee Correctional Institution — the ...

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Some defense attorneys for the South Carolina Department of Corrections employees indicted on federal charges of bringing contraband into the state’s prisons say their clients were surprised by the new charges. Fourteen former prisons employees pleaded not guilty April 25 to ...

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