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 most notorious prison. He was ...

He had heard the stories about the dangers lurking in the shadows of the quarter-mile stretch that defined life inside Central Correctional Institution ... vicious of South Carolina's criminals ...

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.

South Carolina's toughest prison haunted the City of Columbia. The Central Correctional Institution, formerly the South Carolina Penitentiary. An ugly, threatening presence looming above the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — Two corrections officers were indicted by a state grand jury for their alleged involvement in smuggling contraband within South Carolina prisons, according to S.C ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. --Authorities on Wednesday were searching for an inmate they believe has made his second escape from a maximum-security South Carolina prison. Officers began searching just before 2 ...

For example, at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, 10 infractions for negligence ... are hampering the call-blocking system at an SC prison, director says More: Death, violence ...

COLUMBIA — Two prison officers were arrested July 1 on charges of smuggling drugs and electronics into a Columbia prison, the state Department of Corrections said in a news release July 6.