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 The unanimous decision replaces an earlier unpublished opinion and includes additional findings to support the court’s reversal of a family ...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, ...
Read More »BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have charged three inmates with killing a fellow South Carolina prisoner, including one with at least seven weapons violations during his decade in custody. Arrest warrants say the men entered 35-year-old Ae Kingratsaiphon’s cell at Lee ...
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Read More »Cox v. Quinn (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-129-16, 22 pp.) (Harris, J.) No. 15-6943, July 6, 2016; USDC at Roanoke, Va. (Conrad, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Plaintiff inmate who was severely beaten by another inmate allegedly had complained multiple times to ...
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Read More »BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Authorities are investigating violence at a maximum-security South Carolina prison that left one inmate dead and another hospitalized. Local media outlets report Tuesday that the South Carolina Department of Corrections is investigating the death of 35-year-old ...
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Read More »AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — The city of Aiken is warning it will have to replace 10 inmates paid $15 a day to pick up trash and do landscaping with 20 temporary workers who get $10 an hour after South Carolina ...
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Read More »King v. Rubenstein (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-098-16, 37 pp.) (Gregory, J.) No. 15-6382, June 7, 2016; USDC at Martinsburg, W.Va. (Groh, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: An inmate who alleges defendant correctional officials threatened to keep him in administrative segregation unless ...
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Read More »PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — An inmate injured last month in a fight at the Pickens County jail is suing the county saying he wouldn’t have been hurt in the jail wasn’t so crowded. The jail has about 200 prisoners in ...
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South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
