“We have 21 victims we were able to identify, 62 overall. Notice was sent out to those 21 victims over the weekend by the U.S . Attorney’s Office. The conduct found more than 200 unique videos, each one showing a child being sexually abused — infants, toddlers, the most vulnerable among us,” says Stirling.
During his almost four decades working in correctional facilities, Gadsden has worked with the head of South Carolina’s department of corrections, Bryan Stirling, and says he has learned a lot from him.
Bryan Stirling with the SC Department of Corrections and Connie Munn with the SC Department on Aging say over 1,600 presents will be given out to long-term care residents — all made by inmates across the state.
Through an effort called “Operation Spread the Joy,” inmates from 20 different South Carolina prisons are helping to bring happiness to long term care residents with handmade gifts.
Wednesday morning, the Mother’s/Father’s Voice program was renamed Riley’s Readers to honor former US Secretary of Education and South Carolina governor Richard Riley.
At the State House, officials with Wells Fargo announced they’ll provide up to $60 million to support the national expansion of a nonprofit group called Concordance — a group which aims to reduce repeat criminal offenses by providing inmates an opportunity to heal before fully re-entering society.
“I always talk to him and tell him to always shoot for what he wants, to be what he wants to be in life. And this ain’t the place to be at. Everybody makes mistakes, but you gotta correct them and do better. That’s why I chose this book,” says the inmate.
Sixteen inmates at the Manning Reentry Work Release Center on Beckman Drive are taking a week-long class in commercial roofing.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – The South Carolina Senate is considering a bill, that would shield the identities of pharmaceutical companies selling lethal injection drugs to South Carolina. Currently, the state is unable to execute inmates on death row by lethal injection, because the drug companies refuse to sell them the drugs. If an inmate’s execution is ordered, it will not…
