KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) Inspector General announced the arrest of a Kershaw Correctional Institution correctional officer. Officials said Mya ...

KERSHAW, S.C. (WIS) - A correctional officer at the Kershaw Correctional Institution was fired and charged after being accused of allowing an inmate to have a cell phone. According to the South ...

Two men have been arrested and charged after authorities say they tried to deliver contraband to prisoners with a drone. Pharrell Rashawn Dobson, 21, of Bluffton, and Jaheim Dobson, 19, of Varnville ...

Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling speaks to reporters following a bond hearing at the Richland County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — ...

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections released the arrest warrants for 11 inmates in separate cases from November and December 2024.James Wright III, 42, was charged with murder. The ...

Three people - a former correctional officer, a former inmate and the family member of that inmate - have been arrested on charges of running an operation to introduce drugs into over a dozen state ...

KERSHAW, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities say the Kershaw Correctional Institution is expected to remain under lockdown this weekend after a Friday incident in which some inmates refused to return to their ...

A former Kershaw County Detention Center sergeant was arrested Thursday for “violently” attacking a handcuffed inmate, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Steven Thomas Payne was ...