COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina prisons spokesman says seven inmates are dead and 17 others required outside medical attention after hours of fighting inside a maximum security prison.
Prisons spokesman Jeff Taillon announced the grim outcome after State Law Enforcement Division agents helped secure Lee Correctional Institution around 3 a.m. Monday.
Taillon said multiple inmate fights that broke out at 7:15 p.m. Sunday.
Taillon said no officers were wounded.
The maximum-security facility in Bishopville houses about 1,500 inmates, some of South Carolina’s most violent and longest-serving offenders. Two officers were stabbed in a 2015 fight. One inmate killed another in February.
Posted at 6:05 AM, Apr 16, 2018
and last updated 2018-04-16 07:05:57-04
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