The prison system says it’s trying to stop drug smuggling and improve inmate and staff safety. Plaintiffs say it’s an ...

A former South Carolina Department of Corrections officer and four co-defendants pleaded guilty this week in federal court ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Five people charged in a $550K prison bribery scheme have pleaded guilty in federal court. Officials say Atkinson, a corrections officer with the South Carolina Department of ...

Two women from Sumter and Clarendon counties were among five who pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon, July 22 in a prison bribery scheme of $550,000. Adriana Conyers, 37, of Sumter, and Mary Ann ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections is being sued over allegedly censoring reading material in prisons.

SC former prison guard Lowanda Atkinson, who took bribes for a luxury car and plastic surgery, pleaded guilty in federal ...

Authorities say she would then receive a portion of the cash proceeds and bribes -- and use the money on high-end items ...

Where two prison officials let two inmates out of their cells, and one inmate then murdered another inmate, the officials ...

SCDC Inspector General says a Wateree River Correctional Institution correctional officer has been charged with sexual ...

Seven people in Columbia, South Carolina, have been charged for their alleged roles in a $500 million prison bribery scheme. Five of them have agreed to plead guilty. “A former SCDC officer, two ...