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News for the Carolinas
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
South Carolina's prisons agency is seeking additional money to better protect officers who watch over the state's most violent inmates.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
South Carolina's prisons agency is seeking additional money to better protect officers who watch over the state's most violent inmates.
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
A prison riot at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville ended safely this week, though a guard was held hostage, though a guard was held hostage for six hours.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Prison officials in South Carolina are working to keep cell phones from reaching inmates.
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
An advocacy group that has sued South Carolina's prisons agency over the care of mentally ill inmates is getting its day in court.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Facebook has closed the account of South Carolina prisoner serving 60 years for killing a Goose Creek man. Do you think prison inmates should be allowed to access such social media devices as Facebook and Twitter? What sort of rights should inmates be afforded?
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
A U.S. district judge heard arguments Tuesday about whether a South Carolina jail's policy banning all publications except the Bible should be shelved.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Attorneys representing a publication they say is unconstitutionally banned from a South Carolina jail say officials have changed their policies numerous times to justify keeping the magazine out of inmates' hands.
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Friday, May 06, 2011
South Carolina is executing an inmate for the first time in nearly two years.
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Some employees with South Carolina's prison agency are seeing the first effects of a furlough package used to cut down a $7.5 million budget shortfall.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
A budget-writing panel has agreed to send illegal immigrants in South Carolina prisons to federal authorities in order to save money.
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Friday, February 04, 2011
Governor Nikki Haley's nominees to lead South Carolina's tax and insurance agencies have won final approval.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
South Carolina's financial oversight board has delayed taking action on more than $260 million in agency deficits that affect hundreds of thousands of the state's poor.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
As they consider South Carolina's request to jam cell phone signals around state prisons, the Federal Communications Commission is meeting in Washington to discuss ways to combat the issue of smuggled cell phones.
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