A deputy director for South Carolina’s prisons agency is the governor’s pick to lead the department tasked with supervising ...

Most recently, he served as the deputy director of programs and services for the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). It's that experience at the Corrections Department--he joked to ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

During his almost four decades working in correctional facilities, Gadsden has worked with the head of South Carolina’s department of corrections, Bryan Stirling, and says he has learned a lot from ...

South Carolina killer mom Susan Smith told an unknown male caller that she "wouldn't talk" to the media weeks before she was ...

A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection. His ...

Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped a North Charleston native to head the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

Federal investigators have found in a report that a large South Carolina jail vastly underreports the violence behind its ...

Death row inmate Marion Bowman chose to die by lethal injection, while still suing for more information about the drug the ...

Gov. Henry McMaster has tapped Jake Gadsden Jr. to lead the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services.

Stabbings, sexual assaults and drug use are rampant in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center because of staff shortages and ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, viewing chairs are placed in the witness room of the execution chamber in the Broad River Correctional ...