Posted on 04/16/2018 6:03:20 AM PDT by upchuck
Multiple fights at one of South Carolina's most dangerous prisons left at least seven inmates dead and 17 others injured, a prison official said Monday.
Lee Correctional Institution was secured at around 2:55 a.m., nearly eight hours after multiple fights broke out in three housing units Sunday night, prison spokesman Jeff Taillon said. The incident started around 7:15 p.m., he said.
All prison staff and responding law enforcement officers were reported safe after the incident, the South Carolina Department of Corrections wrote. The department added that the State Law Enforcement Division was assisting prison officials in its investigation.
Emergency services from several South Carolina counties responded to the “mass casualty incident,” Lee County Fire wrote in a tweet. Several local media outlets reported the local coroner was called to the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Maximum security prisons are filled with men who simply will not follow any rules, unless those rules are backed up with the threat of severe physical injury or death. There are some who don’t even fear severe injury. They are essentially violently insane, homicidal and suicidal.
Such was the case of those in Solitary in the PBS documentary I was watching. Psychologists spent lots of time trying to solve their individual issues in order to get them into the General prison population. It proved impossible to get them all to the point they could be trusted in the general population. Some could not sustain normality for more than a few days without going berserk.
Why can’t we take the idea of London’s mayor and ban knives in the prison?
doihavetoaddSARC?
I’d like to spend a night in the box with a Vintage 1972 Paul Newman!
Can you magically arrange that for me? ;)
The SC Dept of Corrections tried to recruit me to work in one of their prisons back when I was in Library school. I didn’t want to have anything to do with them.
So, I came home, and, found a job in the Georgia Dept of Corrections. It wasn’t in a maxi-max prison, and, for the most part, a good experience.
But, I am glad I got out of that job.
Naughty girl!
It all started over an argument as to who was better, Bach or Beethoven.
Preferably before the boiled egg scene?
It all started over an argument as to who was better, Bach or Beethoven.More likely, Tupac or Biggie.
I did big projects in SC and GA systems in the eery 90s. SC people were good but low paid. For awhile I worked with a group of Lts. We usually did 12 hours days in other states. In SC we had to stop at 5 so half of them could work a second job.
One woman who’s husband was a patrol captain were the third highest paid couple in their country to to a judge and doctor.
Ga was well organized. At Waycross they had a first class rose garden at the entrance. Great shops and flowers in front of each living unit. Never saw anything like it. Prisons don’t want trees and large bushes for obvious reasons but low flier gardens made the place look decent. The warden had installed mulching system and that prison had the least amount of trash I ever saw. That was a out 1991.
Went to the electric chair chamber and saw letters written by the people that were executed. Interesting. Of course they wrote the letter before they sat down. LOL.
Did you go to Milidgeville?
Just put lifers and death row inmates in the same prison. Let them run their own society. Treat it like escape from NY. The staff can manage the prison with regards to the basic necessities inmates should have, but all perks are gone.
I can’t imagine being in an environment like that where monsters are doing life and have nothing to lose by killing you.........
I have a friend who was a Wayne State University professor who had to do a study many years ago on maximum security inmates at the Oakland County jail in Pontiac, MI.
Each interview he conducted required an armed guard in the room with him for protection. He said these were the scariest people he had ever dealt with in his life and couldn't wait till the study was over....
MS-13?
I play ball with a guy who is a retired prison guard from the Macomb Correctional Facility in New Haven, Michigan. His attitude was, and one he would try to pass on to new guards, don't trust a one of them, don't let them befriend you, and don't do them any favors. They're all out to scam you.....
I read that a couple of times and thought it was kind of a weird request without paying attention to who wrote it.. After reading a response to you, I came back here and checked out the screen name.........Now I understand...LOL!
VERY VERY true!
I had several of them try me. Didn’t work.
Then there was my drug bust. I busted a guy who had several baggies of Marijuana. Got called “Library Vice” after that.
Several times. Also Jackson GD&CC. Saw ol’Sparky there.
When I was coming along, we were installing Legal Libraries around the state due to a Federal Lawsuit. I had to travel to a number of institutions. Never made it to Ware, but, did go to Wayne.
Funny thing about Ware. Back in the early 90s, one of the officers noticed a plane flying into the airport there (the prison being at the airport). The officer called into the airport and they busted the plane. The guys, a doctor and a lawyer, on board were carrying the dead body of the doctor. They were going to fly over the Okefenokee and drop her out of the plane into the swamp.
After they got caught, the doctor said the lawyer did it, and the lawyer said the doctor did it. They both ended up in prison. I met them as part of our training for the legal libraries. They were both idiots.
I went to ,prisons in 15 states and worked CAL Youth Authority 28 years. in georgia I saw my first “serener prison.” Lots of old guys in one place and inmates rushing other inmates in wheel chairs.
IIRC Milidgeville had a woman’s prison and they had made Time magazine in the late 80s. taking women to work in the community during the day and then hitting the motel with one or two of them while they “worked.”
senior prison
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.