South Carolina’s prison director has won a national award for turning around an agency that was near the bottom in the county in funding, salaries and the rate of inmates who return to prison.
South Carolina Department of Corrections inmates got into the holiday spirit today by hand making gifts for nursing home and extended care residents in need.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Christmas gifts are going out to inmates across South Carolina, all thanks to the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Around 2,100 churches made its way to Columbia to drop of gifts at Shandon Baptist Church. “In our prison system as you would well expect inmates feel they are very much alone, they are separated from their…
How is the Palmetto State leading the nation in keeping former inmates from going back to jail?
A correctional officer in the Midlands has been fired after being accused of having sex with an inmate.
South Carolina corrections officials will move forward with $92 million in improvement projects at prisons statewide after lawmakers’ approval.
Fewer inmates in South Carolina are returning to prison than anywhere else in the country. Department of Corrections Director Bryan Sterling announced the Palmetto State has the lowest recidivism rate in the nation at 21.9%.
The Department of Corrections is looking to hire more than 100 full and part-time positions at 21 different prisons across the state. You could be hired on the spot at their job fair tomorrow.
Starting tomorrow, the Department of Corrections will begin phase one of in-person visitation for vaccinated inmates at certain prisons. Those include the Palmer, Livesay, Goodman and Manning institutions.
Some state prisons will reopen for in-person visits this month. The Department of Corrections says visitation will resume June 19 for vaccinated inmates at minimum security facilities across the state.
