Lee Correctional Institution News

The state Department of Corrections will ban all tobacco use at its 37 facilities by the end of next year, becoming the 11th state to implement a total withdrawal of smoking at its prisons.

An inmate who escaped from a minimum-security Charleston prison will now be incarcerated at the maximum-security Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, according to the state Department of Corrections.

A rule that only allowed inmates in the Onslow County jail to read the Bible or legal documents has been lifted.

An inmate at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville was convicted Tuesday of threatening to kill the President of the United States.

A 24-year-old man who is a prisoner at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville has been convicted of threatening the president by mail, U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins announced Tuesday.

South Carolina prison officials say guards had to tear gas a cell block at a maximum security prison after inmates started fighting.

Officials plan to begin questioning inmates about a disturbance that forced the lockdown of a South Carolina prison.

Corrections spokesman Josh Gelinas said about 60 inmates were out of their cells with permission at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville on Saturday afternoon when many started fighting.

A 29-year-old man was charged Monday in connection with a brutal November 2008 home invasion and robbery during which a 59-year-old woman's throat was slashed.

A federal appeals court says a South Carolina judge didn't violate a South Carolina man's constitutional rights by stopping his first murder trial after the victim's body was found.

The former warden of Lee Correctional Institution, Calvin Anthony, hopes his court battles are over now that a federal appeals court has upheld the $510,000 Anthony won for his improper firing.

A federal appeals court has upheld a $510,000 verdict for a former South Carolina prison warden who sued two top officials at the state Corrections Department.

Inmate visits at the state's 28 correctional institutions have been canceled until further notice due to concerns about swine flu, according to the state Department of Corrections.