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Six prisoners who attempted to escape in 1937 killed the prison guard captain in the process. Afterwards, all 6 inmates were convicted of murder and were executed in South Carolina's electric chair. In 1971, four prisoners escaped by widening a toilet drain and following the storm drain into the Columbia Canal.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It currently has about 4,500 employees and just over 15,000 inmates, in 21 institutions. The agency has its headquarters in Columbia. [2]
South Carolina's execution chamber is located in Broad River. [2] The adjacent Kirkland Correctional Institution lies just to its south side. The prison opened in 1988. [1] In January 1990, death row inmates were moved from the Central Correctional Institution to Broad River. In 1990, executions began at BRCI.
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office announced a new set of indictments Tuesday against inmates and employees of the state Department of Corrections.. The indictments from the State ...
Asia Love, who worked for SCDC from 2006 to 2011, attested in a 2019 affidavit that Jeroid Price, then an inmate at Lieber Correctional Institution in Dorchester County, saved her co-worker’s life.
Kirkland has a special role in South Carolina's prison system as the point of intake and assessment for all male state prisoners, the site of the state's Maximum Security Unit, and a health care facility. The prison was first opened in 1975, and houses a maximum of 1707 inmates, plus another 50 in the Max unit and 24 in the infirmary.