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. (WCBD) — Two doctors were assaulted at Kirkland Correctional Institution on Tuesday afternoon. An investigation is now underway, according to NBC affiliate WIS. According to South ...

The cellphone images and recordings by inmates themselves show the visceral brutality of it all — the day when South Carolina ... to replace the Central Correctional Institution in downtown ...

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.

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- Two corrections officers were fired after allegedly attempting to smuggle narcotics, tobacco, cell phones, AirPods, and more into a South Carolina prison where they worked ...

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.

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) released an arrest warrant today, Oct. 23, for a nursing supervisor at the Broad River Correctional Institution in ...