THE AREA AROUND THE BUTTERFLY GARD A South Carolina Department of Corrections employee is facing charges after allegedly groping an inmate. The SCDC Inspector General released arrest warrants on ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Corrections is investigating a death at the Lee Correctional Institution. Authorities say Leo Jermaine Cheeks, an inmate at Lee Correctional ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Leo Cheeks died of natural causes at Lee Correctional Institution on Friday. The agency said an autopsy confirmed his cause of death on Monday.

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13.

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after lawyers for the inmate said his autopsy showed the ...

Now, his legal team claims the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) “botched” it. Mahdi, 42, opted for death by firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair “based on the ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina officials — which is just a wordy way of saying “we” because officials act in our names until we say “stop” — have killed five ...