More indictments have been issued in the drug-trafficking case known as Prison Empire by the South Carolina State Grand Jury, making it the largest number of defendants for a single narcotics conspiracy investigation in South Carolina s courts, according to the state Attorney General s Office.
The indictments collectively contain 487 charges alleged within 297 counts against 100 defendants, according to a press release from the Attorney General.
And there is a connection to a federal case where a web of organized crime allegedly operated in prisons with gangs, drugs and murder. That case has been described as the largest federal racketeering conspiracy in South Carolina history.
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