SC governor picks corrections employee to lead state's probation, pardon, parole agency
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has picked Jake Gadsden Jr. as his nominee to be the director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (PPP). The announcement ...
Condemned inmate worried South Carolina needed 2 lethal injections doses at last execution
Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...
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Governor Henry McMaster Names Next Director of the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services
Governor Henry McMaster Names Next Director of the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services ...
SC governor taps deputy corrections director to oversee probation and parole agency
A deputy director for South Carolina’s prisons agency is the governor’s pick to lead the department tasked with supervising people completing their sentences outside the razor wire. Gov. Henry ...
South Carolina man chooses to die by lethal injection instead of electric chair or firing squad
A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection. His ...
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Gov. McMaster nominates new director of Probations, Pardons and Parole Services
Governor Henry McMaster announced the nomination of a new director of the South Carolina Department of Probations, Pardons ...
South Carolina Jail Plagued by Rapes, Assaults and Security Shortfalls, a Federal Report Says
Federal investigators have found in a report that a large South Carolina jail vastly underreports the violence behind its ...
End state-sanctioned secrecy in South Carolina’s penal system
The court’s decision aided and abetted a cover-up of the conditions and treatment of South Carolina prisoners and death row ...
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Bailey: Secrecy is essential to keep South Carolina’s killing machine killing
Courts rejects ACLU lawsuit to allow the condemned to tell their own stories in efforts to save their lives; Gov McMaster unlikely to commute death sentence ...
U.S. Finds Pervasive Safety Failures at South Carolina Jail
Stabbings, sexual assaults and drug use are rampant in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center because of staff shortages and ...
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South Carolina man chooses to die by lethal injection instead of electric chair or firing squad
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more ... Bowman is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Jan. 31 at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia.