Broad River Correctional Institution News

Monday, August 31, 2009 at 9:51 a.m. Here's a look at some of the stories we're working on.

An inmate serving time for killing a 70-year-old grandmother faces charges in Saturday's stabbing death of a fellow prisoner at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia.

Broad River Correctional Institution was locked down Sunday after an inmate was killed.

A man serving a 30-year prison sentence for trafficking methamphetamines was stabbed and killed outside of his dormitory Saturday at the Broad River Correctional Institution.

An escaped inmate has been apprehended. Investigators with the S.C. Department of Corrections and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division took Tracy Cobb into custody along state Hwy.

People won't be able to visit their mothers in state prison on Mother's Day because visitation has been canceled until further notice in an effort to prevent inmates from contracting swine flu, authorities said.

A South Carolina maximum security prison has been on lockdown for nearly a week as authorities investigate a threat.

A South Carolina maximum security prison has been on lockdown for nearly a week as authorities investigate a threat.