Exclusive: The jail administrator said the former detention officer tried to pan a jail camera away from the woman’s cell ...

Dorm-style pieces of a possible project reduces the overall cost of most of the prison plans the Project Prison Reset Task Force is expected to review on Tuesday.

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

Project Prison Reset’s task force is set to focus on 14 options for new prison facilities in South Dakota. The group is ...

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

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - The leader of the state’s Department of Corrections has been named to become the next U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina. Bryan Stirling, who served as the head ...

Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon's execution will be the first by firing squad. Just three inmates - in Utah in ...

This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.