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$50,000 Jury Award in South Carolina Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Suit

Article • April 3, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017

Filed under: Injury -- Misc., Eighth Amendment, Failure to Protect (Staff)

$50,000 Jury Award in South Carolina Prisoner’s Failure to Protect Suit by A South Carolina federal jury awarded $50,000 to a prisoner in a civil rights action alleging a guard failed to intervene when he was attacked by other prisoners. Lavadre D. Butler, 35, claimed that while incarcerated at the …

Locklear v. Marlboro County, SC, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2017

Brief • February 22, 2017

Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Drug Treatment/Rehab, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Negligence/Reckless Endangerment

Locklear v. Marlboro County, SC, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Medical Neglect, 2017 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF MARLBORO ) ) ) Gary Locklear, individually and as ) Personal Representative of the Estate ) of Roy Locklear, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) vs. ) Marlboro County, Marlboro County ) …

South Carolina Court Finds DOC Erred in Treating Cases as No-Parole Offenses

Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017

Filed under: Parole Board Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, War on Drugs, Parole, Parole Conditions

South Carolina Court Finds DOC Erred in Treating Cases as No-Parole Offenses by On November 12, 2015, the South Carolina Court of Appeals held the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) had erred in interpreting a statute as requiring prisoners with a second conviction for conspiracy to manufacture or intent to …

Prison-Area Cell Phone Companies Not Liable for Attempted Hit on Guard

Article • October 14, 2016

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Telephones, Cell Phone Access, Contractor Liability

Prison-Area Cell Phone Companies Not Liable for Attempted Hit on Guard by Matthew Clarke In a March 25, 2015, opinion, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that cell phone service providers and owners of cell towers in the area around a South Carolina prison were not liable for the …

South Carolina Sheriff Fires Whistleblower Instead of Jailer Who Assaulted Prisoner

Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016

Filed under: Jail Misconduct, Whistleblowing, Jail Specific, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Employee Litigation

South Carolina Sheriff Fires Whistleblower Instead of Jailer Who Assaulted Prisoner by Matthew Clarke After a guard at a South Carolina jail repeatedly struck a prisoner who was being strapped into a restraint chair, York County Sheriff Bruce Bryant took decisive action. He fired the jailer who told a television …

Supreme Court Holds Securing Injunction Justifies Award of Attorney's Fees

Article • September 9, 2016

Filed under: Attorney Fee Awards

Supreme Court Holds Securing Injunction Justifies Award of Attorney's Fees by Matthew Clarke On November 5, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a plaintiff in a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 who secured a permanent injunction, but not nominal damages, was a …

South Carolina TV Crew Tails Warden Driving Across State for Free

Article • September 6, 2016

Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Corrections Audits, Cost of Prison Systems

South Carolina TV Crew Tails Warden Driving Across State for Free by South Carolina's prison towns might be great places to work, but apparently, the wardens wouldn't want to live there. A TV news crew discovered that, six months after South Carolina's Department of Corrections was caught by a state …

$2,200 Award for South Carolina’s Prisoner against Assailant Prisoner

Article • August 25, 2016

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General)

$2,200 Award for South Carolina’s Prisoner against Assailant Prisoner by A jury in South Carolina has awarded $2,200 to a prisoner after finding the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC) guilty of gross negligence. Prisoner Andrew Baldree, 36, was confined on December 28, 2011, at the Lieber Correctional Institution. He …

Bordeaux v. Berkeley County, SC, Complaint, Conditions of Confinement, 2016

Brief • August 18, 2016

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Toxic Fumes/Chemicals

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Start-Up Apparel Company Rests Its Fortunes on Back of Prisoner Labor

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Prison Industries, Prison Labor

Start-Up Apparel Company Rests Its Fortunes on Back of Prisoner Labor by David Reutter A new company, Tight Lines Y’all, has started operations thanks to the availability of prisoner labor to produce its signature items. When Terry Lewis became inspired to start a company he faced the usual obstacles of …

Skinhead Couple Gets Life for Killing Registered Sex Offender in South Carolina

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Sentencing

Skinhead Couple Gets Life for Killing Registered Sex Offender in South Carolina by Joe Watson After being sentenced to life in prison by a Union County, South Carolina judge for killing a registered sex offender and his wife, a pair of white supremacists lashed out at the victims' family with …

Results from Seven States Shows Program-Driven Recidivism Reduction

Article • August 10, 2016

Filed under: Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry

Results from Seven States Shows Program-Driven Recidivism Reduction by The National Reentry Resource Center has published a new study of seven states showing that with proper pre-release programming, recidivism rates can be reduced by a significant amount.  The study, which covered the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, …

ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - York County Detention Center, York, SC, ICE, 2013

Publication • June 2, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Audits, Immigration

ICE Detention Standards Compliance Audit - York County Detention Center, York, SC, ICE, 2013 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Responsibility Inspections and Detention Oversight Washington, DC 20536-5501 Office of Detention Oversight Compliance Inspection Enforcement and Removal Operations Atlanta Field Office York County Detention …

Summary Injustice - A look at Constitutional Deficiencies in SC Summary Courts, ACLU, 2016

Publication • May 26, 2016

Filed under: Judicial Misconduct

Summary Injustice - A look at Constitutional Deficiencies in SC Summary Courts, ACLU, 2016 SUMMARY INJUSTICE: A Look at Constitutional Deficiencies in South Carolina’s Summary Courts Copyright © 2016 National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers REPORT SOUTH CAROLINA This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International License. …

Fourth Circuit Finds 20 Years in Solitary an Atypical and Significant Hardship

Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016

Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

Fourth Circuit Finds 20 Years in Solitary an Atypical and Significant Hardship by David Reutter On July 1, 2015, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found the “20-year period of solitary confinement” endured by a South Carolina prisoner “amounts to an atypical and significant hardship in relation to the general …

SC DOC ICS Rates effective March 2016

Kickback publication • April 7, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Rates

SC DOC ICS Rates effective March 2016 Home | Inmate Search | FAQ | Contact News Research Victims Programs Family Jobs About SCDC TELEPHONE CALLS The State of South Carolina has selected Global Tel*Link Corporation as the Inmate Telephone System Services Provider for the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Search …

South Carolina Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to DUI

Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016

Filed under: Publications/Books, PLN Litigation, First Amendment

South Carolina Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to DUI by In 2012, a historic $599,000 settlement was reached between Prison Legal News and then-Berkeley County, South Carolina Sheriff Wayne DeWitt after the Berkeley County jail rejected PLN’s monthly publication and books mailed to prisoners at the facility. At the time, the …

$3.5 Million for South Carolina Prisoner’s Death Due to Deliberate Indifference

Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016

Filed under: Gastrointestinal, Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

$3.5 Million for South Carolina Prisoner’s Death Due to Deliberate Indifference by The estate of a prisoner who died as a result of complications from medical ailments that went untreated at South Carolina’s Hill-Finklea Detention Center (HFDC) received $3.5 million from a settlement and jury verdict. David Allan Woods, 50, …

Prison Legal News v. Berkeley Co Sheriff Dewitt, SC, Complaint, censorship, 2010

Filing • March 10, 2016

Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship, PLN related

Prison Legal News v. Berkeley Co Sheriff Dewitt, SC, Complaint, censorship, 2010 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON DIVISION PRISON LEGAL NEWS and HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiffs, vs. BERKELEY COUNTY SHERIFF H. WAYNE DEWITT, individually and in his official capacity; CAPTAIN CLIFF …

Prison Legal News v. Berkeley Co Sheriff Dewitt, SC, MIS Intervention, censorship, 2011

Filing • March 10, 2016

Filed under: PLN Litigation, Censorship, PLN related

Prison Legal News v. Berkeley Co Sheriff Dewitt, SC, MIS Intervention, censorship, 2011 2:10-cv-02594-MBS Date Filed 04/12/11 Entry Number 35-1 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTON DIVSION ___________________________________ PRISON LEGAL NEWS, et. al., ) ) Plaintiffs; ) ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) …