Richland County sheriff s deputies said they subdued around 40 detainees at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center late on Nov. 12, after a fire and possible riot at the jail,
Multiple people were stabbed within a few days of each other at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia as the county jail faces lawsuits and pressure from state and
One of the inmates was taken to a hospital, according to the sheriff’s department, after an incident at the jail where stabbings, assaults and fights are an ongoing pattern. A civil rights investigation is now underway.
Jails in Charleston and Richland counties have been in the spotlight for deaths of mentally ill inmates, brutal violence and reports of filthy living conditions, but they are far from
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into a potential pattern of civil rights violations in two of South Carolina’s most troubled county jails.