A month-and-a-half ago, this news site reported exclusively on a looming battle over the South Carolina state budget. For the last six weeks, this battle raged...
General Assembly in no position to criticize agency's leadership, staff ...
Battle over debt could result in a bitter budget fight ...
Yesterday’s news that fourteen employees of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) had been arrested by federal authorities in connection with a prison smuggling scandal...
Lee Correctional Institution – the site of a deadly brawl earlier this month – experienced a minor fire on Tuesday evening. Fortunately, the incident was reportedly...
Clip highlights epidemic of violence behind bars in the Palmetto State ...
Dear Editor, I find it appropriate as we end this week to look back on some of the intense moments in which politicians and the like...
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Catherine Templeton responded to the latest – and deadliest – outbreak of violence in the Palmetto State’s prison system by calling for...
Cell phones. Drugs. Tobacco. “Green Dot Cards.” These are the “coins of the realm” within South Carolina’s increasingly violent prison system – which was the setting...
A wave of bloody violence swept through Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina on Sunday evening and early Monday morning – killing seven inmates and wounding another...