South Carolina Prison Chief Fired as Scandal Widens by Dan Pens 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. The charges deepened a prison scandal …
"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years--He Didn't Sentence Me to Death" by Anne-Marie Cusac "The Judge Gave Me Ten Years--He Didn't Sentence Me to Death" Prisoners with HIV deprived of proper care By Anne-Marie Cusac In prisons and jails across the country, prisoners with HIV or AIDS are denied proper …
SC Jail Escape Kills One by 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 …
SC Prisoners Settle Rape Suits by On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison …
South Carolina Prisoner Wins Excessive Use of Force Suit Pro Se by South Carolina Prisoner Wins Excessive Use Of Force Suit Pro Se By Matthew T. Clarke In an unpublished opinion, the Fourth Circuit court of appeals has held that a South Carolina federal district court improperly failed to consider …
Long Term Segregation of Security Threat Group Okay by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the long-term segregation of a purported religious sect as a Security Threat Group (STG) violates neither the Free Exercise nor the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. It further …
$100,000 Settlement in South Carolina Jail Death by On May 12, 1999, Spartanburg county in South Carolina announced it would pay $100,000 to settle a wrongful death suit filed by the estate of a prisoner. On June 7, 1998, John Pruitt, a detainee in the Spartanburg county jail, collapsed and …
They Killed a Man, Not a Number by David Hill [Editor's Note: South Carolina killed Andy Smith on December 18, 1998. He was the 500th person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Like a thousand other editors, I wanted to cover it. I asked …
South Carolina Parole Elimination Violates Ex Post Facto by The South Carolina supreme court held that the retroactive statutory elimination of parole eligibility for violent offenders violates the ex post facto clause provisions of the United States and South Carolina constitutions. Ronnie Phillips, a South Carolina state prisoner, pled guilty …
South Carolina Grooming Rules Upheld by The court of appeals for the Fourth circuit held that South Carolina prison rules requiring that all male prisoners have short hair and remain clean shaven were constitutional. In 1995 the South Carolina Department of Corrections implemented numerous "get tough" measures on prisoners, this …
Raffaldt v. Moore, SC, Order, Visitation Strip Search Without Cause, 1998 4:96-cv-01536-PMD Date Filed 11/20/1998 Entry Number 52 Page 39 of 39 FILED t:OV 2. e 1996 ~ IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRCT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA FLORENCE DIVISION LARKY W. Pkllr't:>. GLI::HK CHARLESTON, SC Kathy Raffaldt …
Repeal of South Carolina Furlough Law Violates Ex Post Facto by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that amendments to a South Carolina statute which eliminated furlough rights for prisoners convicted before its passage violate the ex post facto clause of the U.S. constitution. In 1983 the …
Jailhouse Travel Agents by Travel Wholesalers International, a travel agency based in Fairfax, Virginia, recruits workers in out-of-the-way places. The company employs 12 maximum-security prisoners at the Leath Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Greenwood, South Carolina. The prisoner-workers talk to clients over the phone, registering plane reservations and other …
Slavery in South Carolina by Dan Pens What is the difference between a good slave and a bad slave? The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) knows: Good slaves "continue to work and stay out of trouble". Below is the full text of a memorandum addressed to the South Carolina …
PLRA Applies to Juveniles, Retroactive on Attorney Fees by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) applies to lawsuits brought by juvenile detainees and its cap on attorney fees ($112.50 an hour) applies to work performed before the PLRA's April 26, …
Fourth Circuit Affirms PLRA IFP Provisions in Parole Suit by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that changes to 28 U.S.C. § 1915 by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), which requires prisoners to pay full filing fees in all civil litigation, are constitutional. Gary Roller, a …
Consent Decrees Create Enforceable Right by A federal district court in South Carolina held that a consent decree created an enforceable due process right and a prisoner's § 1983 claim for violation of the consent decree was not barred by Sandin v. Conner, 115 S.Ct. 2293 (1995). As court's explore …
South Carolina Consent Decree Terminated under PLRA by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit upheld the termination of a consent decree pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and rejected challenges to the constitutionality of the PLRA. In 1982 South Carolina prisoners filed suit challenging conditions of …
Macing and Restraints State Eighth Amendment Claim by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that not allowing a prisoner to wash after being maced and placing him in four point restraints created a fact question requiring a trial to determine if his eighth amendment rights were violated. …
