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South Carolina Prison Chief Fired as Scandal Widens
Loaded on April 15, 2001
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2001, page 13
Governor Jim Hodges angrily fired South Carolina's prisons chief January 11, 2001 after two guards were charged with allowing four minimumsecurity prisoners (2 male, 2 female) to have sex inside the governor's mansion.
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Medical Misconduct,
Work,
Prison Labor.
Location:
South Carolina.
The charges deepened a prison scandal that began last summer when Susan Smith, the state's most famous ...
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