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As Hurricane Michael makes it way through the Gulf Coast of Florida and North Carolina, evacuations are becoming more and more difficult for residents. But despite being located in mandatory evacuation zones, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) have not evacuated 15 state prisons.

Despite a mandatory evacuation order in the area, South Carolina will not evacuate its 1,053 prisoners and staff at Ridgeland Correctional Institution in Jasper County as Hurricane Florence makes its way to the Southern East Coast. North Carolina and Virginia are relocating inmates in all evacuation zones.

Seven prisoners at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina are dead following what is being described as a mass brawl. Seventeen were also injured following the melee that began around 7:15 pm Sunday night, and the facility was not secured until around eight hours later according to reports from Buzzfeed. The South Carolina […]

Human trafficking remains a global mechanism for the dehumanization of and insidious profiting off of vulnerable people. Human trafficking endures when people are kidnapped, sold, subjected to sexual violence and forced into physical labor. It endures in cosmopolitan cities, in small towns, and in western and eastern worlds. It endures in modern day human markets […]

It took a jury only two hours to find Dylann Roof guilty of multiple charges connected to the deadly shooting of nine people in a South Carolina A.M.E. church.

About a year ago, in April 2015, a video shocked the masses when it showed what clearly appeared to be a police officer shooting a fleeing black man in the back and then planting a taser by his dead body. Michael Slager, the former South Carolina officer that was captured in the video shooting Walter Scott, […]

On Sept. 24, 2014, South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert pulled over Levar Jones for an alleged seat belt violation. What should’ve been an ordinary traffic stop turned into a violent situation where Groubert shot into Jones car, hitting him in the hip. Groubert, 32, pleaded guilty to shooting Jones that day and could face […]

North Charleston, S.C. police officer, Michael T. Slager, has been charged with murder. Slager claimed that during a traffic stop, Walter L. Scott took his stun gun and that he shot Scott in self-defense. The story would have stopped there if a video of the incident had not been recorded by an on-looker. The video shows Scott […]

  Sean Groubert, the South Carolina state trooper who shot Levar Jones in September during a routine traffic stop, is claiming that Jones was the aggressor. Footage from the police car dash cam shows Groubert pulling over Jones for a seatbelt violation. Jones reaches to grab his wallet, per Groubert’s instructions, but is then shot […]

  A South Carolina trooper who shot an unarmed man for what appears to be no apparent reason was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault and battery. Sean Groubert was fired from the Highway Patrol after the shooting incident. He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted for wrongfully shooting driver Levar […]

  Residents of a South Carolina town say they woke up to candy from the Ku Klux Klan on their front lawns. Individuals who reside in an Oconee County subdivision found the bags between Saturday night and Sunday morning. 

Two men were arrested at a South Carolina Waffle House after they refused to comply with a security guard’s order to pull up their saggy pants. Andrew Gehring, 22, and Donovan Johnson, 22, were charged with “causing a disturbance” after being asked to “pull up their pants and not show their boxers.”