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SC Jail Escape Kills One

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News February, 2001, page 19
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes. Location: South Carolina.
Eight prisoners sought to escape from the Richland county jail in South Carolina on the night of September 17, 2000. The jail houses mostly pretrial detainees from Columbia, South Carolina and Richland County. The escape attempt resulted in a guard's death but no one actually left the jail's perimeter.

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