Some prisoners in South Carolina will soon be able to attend college for free.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections is spending close to one million dollars on air purifiers to combat the spread of COVID-19 in prisons.
Nearly 40 men and women are currently on death row in South Carolina, but no executions have been carried out since 2011.
Some inmates in South Carolina say their prisons still are on lock down eight months after a riot that killed seven inmates.
Officers from the S.C. Department of Corrections say they caught an inmate who escaped Monday night from a job site.
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)- Two convicts who were already serving life sentences for killing a mother and her child have been charged with murder in the strangulation deaths of four inmates inside a South Carolina prison. Arrest warrants released early Saturday say 35-year-old Denver Simmons and 25-year-old Jacob Philip lured each inmate into a cell at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina prisons have reached an agreement with an advocacy group over how to reform the care of mentally ill inmates. The Department of Corrections announced Wednesday it had reached a final agreement with Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities on a plan to establish benchmarks for settling a decade-old case. The settlement requires court…
