South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jun 14, 2026

Oregon prisons hit with class lawsuit over solitary confinement program

Five incarcerated individuals on June 11 filed a class action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Corrections, its director, deputy director, inspector general and two other leaders, arguing that the state […]

Mar 20, 2025

Condemned SC inmate faults his defense

COLUMBIA — Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want to stop his execution, saying his defense’s plea for his life at his […]

Sep 7, 2023

Biden draws line in 9/11 terror attack plea deals

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has refused to approve some of the conditions that lawyers for the defendants in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had sought in a possible plea […]

Sep 1, 2015

California to end unlimited isolation for most gang leaders

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California agreed Tuesday to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept hundreds of inmates in notorious segregation units for […]

Sep 1, 2015

Major development in California solitary confinement lawsuit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys representing inmates held for years, sometimes decades, in California’s notorious isolation cells plan to announce Tuesday what they say is a major development in a lawsuit […]

Jul 9, 2015

Civil Rights — Inmate Seeks Solitary Detention Review

Incumaa v. Stirling (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-119-15, 42 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 14-6411, July 1, 2015; USDC at Beaufort, S.C. (Norton, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Plaintiff inmate, a member of […]

Jul 2, 2015

US appeals court revives SC solitary confinement challenge

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a South Carolina inmate’s claim that prison officials have violated his due process rights by holding him in solitary confinement […]

Mar 11, 2015

Criminal Practice — Solitary Confinement on Death Row Upheld

Prieto v. Clarke, Director (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-041-15, 35 pp.) (Motz, J.) No. 13-8021, March 10, 2015; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Brinkema, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit reverses […]

Feb 23, 2015

SC prisons put time limits on solitary confinement

COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina’s prison system is changing the way it handles inmates in solitary confinement, according to a newspaper report. Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling told The […]