South Carolina Department of Corrections Funding Staff shortage Bryan Stirling Contraband cell phone Correctional officers Vacancy rate CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — It's unprecedented.

South Carolina South Carolina agrees to $6 million deal following 2018 deadly prison riot The 2018 riot at Lee Correctional Institution was the worst U.S. prison riot in 25 years ...

A South Carolina abandoned hospital wing has been transformed into a health facility for inmates. The $3.3 million project is expected to start accepting patients before the end of 2022.

South Carolina Department of Corrections / AP Mahdi will then be secured to a chair, with straps around his waist, ankles and arms. Then a curtain to the witness room will open.

South Carolina Department of Corrections. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon will be led into South Carolina’s death chamber Friday evening.

According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the incident happened at Lieber Correctional Institution in 2021.According to a statement and warrants provided by the agency, 35-year ...

Now he wants to implement it in all of South Carolina’s prisons and plans to ask the General Assembly for money in next year’s budget to do so. They are still determining the exact cost, but the ...

KERSHAW, S.C. — An inmate has died during a fight at a South Carolina prison. The South Carolina Department of Corrections says 40-year-old Gerardo Rodriguez Tenorio was killed in a fight Friday ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections, via Associated Press. By Eduardo Medina. Reporting from Columbia, S.C. March 7, 2025. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing ...