South Carolina sets next execution date as inmate questions lethal injection doses
The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber ...
The Hill25d
End state-sanctioned secrecy in South Carolina’s penal system
The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina notes that the state’s department of corrections “enforces the nation’s most restrictive policy on media access to prisoners,” taking ...
High-ranking SC prisons employee gave inmates confidential info in exchange for cash, prosecutors say
A former high-ranking officer with the South Carolina Department of Corrections is being accused of giving highly sensitive ...
BBC6y
South Carolina convicts 'blackmail soldiers in sexting scheme'
Inmates in prisons across South Carolina have been accused of extorting money from US soldiers after posing as young women on dating apps, sending nude photos and then demanding payment.
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Victims at South Carolina prison: Some were killers, some hoped for freedom
The victims' histories before their incarceration, and their time in South Carolina's prison system, are documented in state correctional records, court documents and social media posts.
Charlotte Observer5y
Inmate stabbed in the head had to wait 15 minutes for prison guard to help, SC suit says
A man attacked with a knife in his South Carolina prison cell couldn’t find a correctional officer to help him, he says. Devodus Rouse was serving time in a Greenville County prison when two ...
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SC attorney general joins 23 others against taxpayers funding sex changes for prison inmates
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 24-state coalition filing a brief arguing that taxpayers should not have to pay for sex change operations for prison inmates. The attorney ...