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South Carolina’s current execution law requires inmates to be sent to the electric chair unless they choose a different method

An official designated a relative be hired as an intelligence officer even though that person hadn’t applied and someone else had already been chosen

Eight correctional officers and six detainees were injured late Sunday night after a melee at a facility that recently absorbed the detainees from the closed Baltimore City Detention Center

Next on his agenda is toughening the way employees are disciplined and cleaning up a lax culture of employee discipline in the corrections system

A judge said Alex Banta was “caught up in the culture” of silence surrounding violence against inmates

The Republican governor said the Civil War-era jail — which is run by the state — could be torn down, and there are no plans to build a new facility

The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services would cut $24 million

Has seen a decrease of almost 3,000 inmates in the last year

Head of police union says if county buys off-duty guns for COs, he wants the same for cops

The new report, the third of its kind by the Justice Department, was based on interviews with inmates