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| Citing staff issues, South Carolina moves death row inmates from Ridgeville prison to Columbia |
| By postandcourier.com- Andrew Knapp |
| Published: 09/27/2017 |
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South Carolina's Death Row was moved Tuesday from the Dorchester County prison it has called home for two decades to a Columbia facility with more officers and better resources for the condemned inmates, state officials said. Lieber Correctional Institution near Ridgeville has suffered particularly amid declining staffing levels at prisons nationwide. It's a likely result of the robust job market in the Charleston region, S.C. Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said. The overnight operation that transferred 37 inmates to Kirkland Correctional Institution could free up eight officers to bolster security elsewhere at Lieber, where Stirling said a single officer could sometimes be in charge of an entire unit of high-level offenders. Read More. |
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