Days before South Carolina’s next execution, the state’s American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the so-called “shield law” that cleared the way ...

Authorities found the following contraband: The sheriff’s office said charges will be added to each inmate who possessed any ...

The U.S. Department of Justice told the jail in Richland County, which includes South Carolina's capital of Columbia ... into the prison in lunch coolers and under food containers. "Corrections ...

Issac Bailey has a message for the South Carolina Department of Corrections employees who will execute Bowman: It’s a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has picked Jake Gadsden Jr. as his nominee to be the director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services (PPP).

The state’s law keeping information about lethal injection drugs secret violates constitutional rights to free speech, a ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, viewing chairs are placed in the witness room of the execution chamber in the Broad River Correctional ...

Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped a North Charleston native to head the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and ...

A federal district court denied a motion from a death row inmate to halt his execution which is set for Friday night.

Gadsden currently works for the states Department of Corrections and has over 30 years of experience overseeing both state and county ...

Other options are available for a death row inmate who claimed he has a right to know more about the drugs that will kill him ...