Eddie Payden made history Friday. Payden walked out the front entrance of Central Correctional Institution as the final inmate in the last group of 21 convicts transferred from South Carolina's ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A 33-year-old inmate at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia died at a local hospital Wednesday, according to a statement by the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

At Columbia’s notorious Central Correction Institution, a prisoner “felt like an animal.” Former guards, wardens and inmates talk about the prison.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Corrections reports two people have been arrested and charges are pending against a third man in connection with bringing contraband into Lee ...

Laquinces D. Davis, 47, an inmate at Evans Correctional Institution, was found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead on Thursday, officials said.

In the months before a deadly riot, officers at Lee Correctional Institution received more lenient discipline than counterparts at similar SC prisons.

COLUMBIA — Federal officials must take action to allow cellphone jamming in prisons, state grand juries said in a pair of ...

The facility opened in 1993 as a replacement for the Central Correctional Institution in Columbia. The prison has single and double cell housing, with a double-fencing system around the perimeter.

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - For more than 125 years, South Carolina's toughest prison haunted the City of Columbia. The Central Correctional Institution, formerly the South Carolina Penitentiary. An ugly ...

SC Department of Corrections to roll out new program supporting inmates battling substance abuse Program to begin in Columbia facility, likely expand statewide ...

The SCDOC released an arrest warrant today for a nursing supervisor at the Broad River Correctional Institution.