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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Read More »Two former leaders at Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville are suing the state Department of Corrections, saying they were unfairly blamed after an inmate escaped the maximum security prison last summer. Joseph McFadden, who was the warden, and James Blackwell, ...
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Read More »COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina’s prisons agency is subjecting inmates to cruel and unusual punishment by not testing them for a potentially fatal liver disease, according to a lawsuit filed March 14 by one of the state’s inmates. The federal lawsuit filed ...
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Read More »It likely wasn’t as coordinated as the roof-tarring scene in The Shawshank Redemption, but somehow, a group of inmates ended up on the roof of one of South Carolina’s maximum-security prisons recently. Multiple media outlets have reported on the incident ...
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Read More »Inmates in South Carolina prisons now have the option of either visiting a dying relative in the hospital or attending the person’s funeral. A law signed last month by Gov. Henry McMaster requires the Department of Corrections to arrange for ...
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Inmates in South Carolina prisons have no constitutional right to the grievance policy that the corrections department provides, but they do have the right — should they file a grievance — not to be retaliated against, a divided 4th U.S. ...
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A settlement agreement between an advocacy group for thousands of mentally ill inmates and the South Carolina Department of Corrections was hailed as a historic step toward overhauling the state’s troubled prison system. But that was a year ago and ...
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Read More »Officers have regained control of a South Carolina prison dormitory after inmates attacked and injured three officers. News outlets report one officer was been stabbed Sunday and all three were treated for non-life threatening injuries. South Carolina Department of Corrections ...
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The South Carolina Court of Appeals has published a new opinion that vacates the adoption of an incarcerated father’s child. The unanimous decision replaces an earlier unpublished opinion and includes additional findings to support the court’s reversal of a family ...
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Read More »They say that in prison, there’s always someone who can get you whatever contraband you’re looking for. Typically, however, that person isn’t one of the corrections officers keeping watch over the inmates. But at the Federal Correctional Institution in Bennettsville, ...
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