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SCDPPPS put false information in an inmate parole file that contradicts facts recognized by the SC Supreme Court. The inmates attorney says it may be a crime.

Joseph Kelsey was denied parole on April 24. Kelsey was the youngest of three teens convicted of a 1994 murder in South Carolina. He’s the only one still in prison.

Joseph Kelsey was 16 when he and two others committed murder. He was convicted for killing Melanie Richey. The South Carolina parole board could set him free.

Decades of evidence proves that a functional parole system makes us all safer. Human beings don’t function well without hope, and the hope of parole incentivizes good behavior and reformation,

The South Carolina Department of Corrections says Murdaugh has been charged with abuse of privileges and unauthorized use of an inmate’s pin number

Murdaugh can be seen without his shirt, yawning at the screen and wearing headphones in the snapshots that are thought to have automatically taken by his device each time he logged on.

Susan Smith was in her early 20s when she told police that a Black man had stolen her car, with her two young sons inside. Actually, she'd let her car roll into a lake, drowning...

South Carolina's prison director has won a national award for turning around an agency that was near the bottom in the county in funding, salaries and the rate of inmates who return to prison. Corrections Department Director Bryan Stirling was honored Saturday night by the Correctional Leaders Association for the changes in South Carolina prisons over his eight years of leadership. His nomination says Stirling increased starting salaries for officers by $10,000 to $36,000. Stirling was also...

Former jailer seeks clemency for one death row inmate Michelle Liu Tags:  Justice 360 This Aug. 17, 2018, photo provided by Justice 360 shows death row inmate Richard Moore at Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center in Columbia, S.C. Moore was sentenced to death in the 1999 fatal shooting of James Mahoney, a convenience store clerk in Spartanburg County, S.C. ( Blossom Street Films/Justice 360 via AP) COLUMBIA, S.C. – If Richard Moore is executed, he will have some say in how he goes — th...