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Review of Lee prison riot probe may finish soon
By theitem.com
Published: 05/29/2019

BISHOPVILLE (AP) - Prosecutors may be close to completing their review of an investigation of a riot at a South Carolina prison that left seven inmates dead.

South Carolina Department of Corrections spokeswoman Chrysti Shain told The Greenville News in a story published Tuesday that the review may finish in a few weeks. No one has been charged so far in the April 2018 violence at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville. It was the worst U.S. prison riot in 25 years.

Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said last month that an investigation had been completed and would be sent to prosecutors.

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