Prison staff delay prolongs crowding
By Mike Cherney
Myrtle Beach Sun News
In a general housing wing at J. Reuben Long Detention Center, eight men sleep in a small room with only four bunk beds. Elsewhere in the wing, four men sleep in a room with only two bunk beds.
Those without a bed sleep on green mats on the floor.
Sympathy for these criminals and others charged with crimes - not everyone in the jail has been to trial - may be limited, but the overcrowding at the county jail has an effect on jail officers, too ... Full Story