A South Carolina inmate using a contraband cell phone to extort a young Michigan man who later died by suicide has reignited national urgency ...

C OLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTV) - A bill banning the use of cell phones inside South Carolina prisons became law Tuesday, 14 years after the corrections officer it was named after was nearly killed.

An inmate died at a South Carolina prison May 9, and his death was investigated as suspicious, according to the the state Department of Corrections. Leo Jermaine Cheeks, 40, was found unresponsive ...

A South Carolina convict currently serving a life sentence for murder, orchestrated the murder of a person suspected of robbing a drug courier involved with a methamphetamine operation.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A supervisor who managed security at a South Carolina prison accepted more than $219,000 in bribes over three years and got 173 contraband cellphones for inmates, according to ...

Video released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows an inmate on the phone with T-Mobile after his phone stopped working. An SC prison shut off his phone. He called tech support.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) — South Carolina ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. — State officials have identified a man who died on Friday night after a fire in his cell. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said 33-year-old David Viron ...

Federal prosecutors say a South Carolina prisoner already serving a life sentence for murder used a cellphone to orchestrate killing another man. 90 º Join Insider Sign In ...