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The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It currently has about 4,500 employees and just over 15,000 inmates, in 21 institutions. The agency has its headquarters in Columbia. [2]
Campbell Pre-Release Center (closed 2014) Catawba Pre-Release Center (closed 2017) Coastal Pre-Release Center (closed 2015) Lower Savannah Pre-Release Center (closed 2016) South Carolina Penitentiary (demolished) Stevenson Correctional Institution (merged with Walden 2010) Watkins Pre-Release Center (closed 2012)
Leath Correctional Institution (LCIW) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison for women located in unincorporated Greenwood County, South Carolina, [1] near Greenwood. [2] Leath opened in 1991. [3] It is located just east of the Greenwood County Airport. The prison, on a 39-acre (16 ha) plot of land, has a capacity of 968. [4]
A Greenville County inmate will be the first person to face execution in South Carolina since 2011. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, was ordered to be executed on Sept. 20 after spending more than 20 ...
From 2015 to 2018, inmates in South Carolina prisons ran an elaborate sexual extortion scheme targeting members of the military. The scheme targeted around 440 members of the military, who were ...
Leon was jailed at the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Richland County, South Carolina, following his conviction for murder. SC Department of Corrections releases timeline of Greg Leon’s ...
Kirkland has a special role in South Carolina's prison system as the point of intake and assessment for all male state prisoners, the site of the state's Maximum Security Unit, and a health care facility. The prison was first opened in 1975, and houses a maximum of 1707 inmates, plus another 50 in the Max unit and 24 in the infirmary.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield (FCI Edgefield) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in South Carolina. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders ...