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This is a list of state prisons in South Carolina. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of South Carolina. Allendale Correctional Institution; Broad River Correctional Institution; Broad River Secure Facility; Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution; Evans Correctional Institution
The South Carolina penal system was essentially founded in 1866, when the first state penitentiary was constructed. [3] The SCDC was created in 1960, when the state governor decided to end abuses in the previous system (particularly the use of convict labor on private property as a form of political reward).
Twenty-One Magazine, also known as the Old Charleston Jail, is a structure of historical and architectural significance in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Operational between 1802 and 1939, the jail held many notable figures, among them Denmark Vesey , Union officers and Colored Troops during the American Civil War, and high-seas ...
The wanted man is being charged with several new crimes, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.
Afterwards, all 6 inmates were convicted of murder and were executed in South Carolina's electric chair. In 1971, four prisoners escaped by widening a toilet drain and following the storm drain into the Columbia Canal. When Pee Wee Gaskins served as an inmate at the penitentiary he famously blew up a fellow prisoner with a plastic explosive. In ...
A South Carolina prison policy banning inmates from speaking to reporters in person or having their writings directly published violates the First Amendment free speech rights of prisoners, a ...
South Carolina's execution chamber is located in Broad River. [2] The adjacent Kirkland Correctional Institution lies just to its south side. The prison opened in 1988. [1] In January 1990, death row inmates were moved from the Central Correctional Institution to Broad River. In 1990, executions began at BRCI.
An investigation found that between March 2 and March 3, Destiny Sierra Hinson, 23, smuggled the drug into the jail, where it was distributed to several inmates, according to an affidavit.