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The Broad River Correctional Institution (BRCI) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Columbia, South Carolina. [1] 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]
Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution is a South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) state prison for women in Columbia, South Carolina. [1] The Women's Reception and Evaluation Center, which processes all females entering SCDC, is in the prison. [citation needed] The prison opened in 1973, as "Women's Correctional Institution".
Until 1915, the prison did not keep death records on any of its prisoners. Researchers have estimated that 1,900 prisoners were buried in the cemetery and the area surrounding it, only 279 prisoners of the 1,900 prisoners have been identified. [1] In the 1980s, the South Carolina's Budget and Control Board took control of the cemetery.
An inmate at a prison in Columbia was found dead Tuesday, and his death is being investigated as a homicide, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.. Donnel Geoffrey Brown, 40 ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who spent nearly two decades on South Carolina's death row for killing two people has been granted life in prison without parole two years after a federal court ...
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.
South Carolina has executed 43 inmates since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. Nearly all inmates have chosen lethal injection since it became an option in 1995. South Carolina ...
Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1854, and expanded in 1921. The older section is heavily wooded and has a section devoted to Confederate dead. [2] [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]