Inmate sues SC Department of Corrections following stabbing A lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Corrections alleges an inmate attacked another inmate at a state prison while correctional officers failed to intervene. (Source: Live 5 News/SC Courts) By Alexis Simmons | December 29, 2020 at 3:07 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 7:23 PM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Corrections alleges an inmate attacked another inmate at a state prison while correctional officers failed to intervene. The lawsuit states the incident happened at McCormick Correctional Institution in the upstate. It was filed less than two weeks before an incident on Sunday at the same facility where authorities say inmates locked a correctional officer in a cell. The inmate suing, Joshua E. Brown, is from North Charleston.