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-Lurid Crime Tales-
7 inmates dead, 17 injured in South Carolina prison fighting
2018-04-16
[AP] 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 no officers were wounded after multiple inmate fights broke out at 7:15 p.m. Sunday.

Lee County Fire/Rescue said ambulances from at least seven jurisdictions lined up outside the prison to tend to the wounded. The local coroner’s office also responded.

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 by:Besoeker

#8  Belted ammo used to be a favorite remedy at Mexican prison riots. Just a thought.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-16 16:14  

#7  ..stay with N2, otherwise the environmental impact study will be a cluster. Remember all the obstructions to lethal injections. Madame Guillotine is quicker, no environmental or FDA approval required.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-16 12:55  

#6  What they really should do is set the prison up to flooded with N2

Or BZ. It's probably on sale now.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-04-16 12:24  

#5  Allowing this is stupid. They should have sent the guards in with orders to shoot anyone fighting. Anyone who doesn't immediately lay on the floor and put hands on head gets an immediate summary justice application.

What they really should do is set the prison up to flooded with N2 so that any riot cleans out the prison and you have a now empty prison to fill. No more prison riots after the first hits the news.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-04-16 12:10  

#4  Good! Plenty of cell space available now. Push two bunks together, end to end. He's out in the yard, Hawking his new book. You can't miss him.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-16 10:48  

#3  They'd be more peaceful 6 feet under. They'll be there eventually anyway. Only a rich society can afford to warehouse so many imminent threats to the lives and security of its productive citizenry. Meanwhile, how many of those productive citizens are executed without due process in their homes, their neighborhoods, their businesses, their communities? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-16 09:43  

#2  Those kicks were fast as lightning...
Posted by: Raj   2018-04-16 09:31  

#1  Sorry about the COs.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-04-16 08:52  

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