A state grand jury has unsealed 11 indictments in the “Prison Empire” prosecution against people accused of providing contraband cell phones to prison inmates who are allegedly using the phones to direct criminal activities beyond the prison walls, the state’s ...

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When Michael Freeman was released from a South Carolina prison in December 2016, he began the slow and strenuous process of trying to pick up the pieces of his life and rebuild. It took him years of hard work, but ...

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South Carolina prison officials say unclear court orders and ambiguous directions have left prison workers confused about how much time offenders should serve. The division director of classification and inmate records at the state Department of Corrections, Joette Scarborough, told ...

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  A federal prisoner’s sentence must be reconsidered, again, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, this time giving weight to a state court’s order for concurrent sentences. This is the second time the 4th Circuit has heard ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Judges in California and South Carolina have ordered cellphone carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates to orchestrate crimes behind and outside prison walls, the most sweeping order of its kind ever won by ...

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Eighteen lawsuits have been filed against the South Carolina Department of Corrections since an April prison riot left seven inmates dead and 22 others injured. These lawsuits are likely to increase the already steep cost created by litigation brought against ...

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This Sidebar reporter recently spoke to South Carolina Department of Corrections officials about how the agency is working to prepare inmates for their return to society. But despite the best efforts of any agency employing any methodology, statistically speaking, not ...

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KERSHAW (AP) Authorities say a South Carolina guard was arrested for trying to smuggle marijuana into prison less than three months after she was hired. Arrest warrants say Rena Hoover hid two plastic zipper bags with what looked like marijuana ...

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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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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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