Agents with the South Carolina Department of Corrections arrested an Orangeburg man accused of violating the terms of his conditional release under the state’s Youthful Offender Act.

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

On January 1, 2025, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar executed a deadly attack in New Orleans' French Quarter, driving a rented Ford F-150 Lightning into crowds on Bourbon Street during New Year's celebrations ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) said an inmate attempted to escape from a van on ...

The 31-year-old was in prison on an assault and battery conviction, according to South Carolina court records..

The South Carolina Department of Corrections has the lowest recidivism rate in the country, but they want to make it even lower by teaching inmates job skills they can use immediately after ...

A feature built into the body cameras worn by Marcy prison guards allowed state corrections officials to retrieve footage hours after the incident.

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections released the arrest warrants for 11 inmates in separate cases from November and December 2024.

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn’t obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...