S.C. prisons need far more guards - and transparency

A guard tower stands above the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Bishopville, the morning after seven inmates were killed amid fighting among prisoners in 2018.

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Editor's note: This column first appeared in The Post and Courier of Charleston.

Here is what the people who run South Carolina's prisons don't want you to know: that a month before America's deadliest riot in a quarter century they were warned that the state's corrections system was operating with half the staff required to keep it safe.

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