Alvin S Glenn Detention Center is dangerous; Charleston County jail audit pending. South Carolina Legislature must provide ...

After deaths, stabbings and lawsuits, the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center hopes that a major renovation can save the ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 22, around 11:50 a.m., deputies responded to reports of an individual being stabbed at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. According to deputies, 22-year-old Traverse Webber ...

The feds wrapped up their over civil rights investigation into the long-troubled jail and announced their findings during a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A detainee at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia is being charged with stabbing a fellow detainee multiple times. The Richland County Sheriff's Department said ...

A Department of Justice report on dangerous, unconstitutional conditions in Richland County jails should be required reading, ...

The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it found inmate conditions at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center violate the ...

Over the past several years the Richland County jail has acquired an unusually ... over the treatment of disabled and mentally ill inmates. The jail is currently facing an investigation by the ...

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

Inmate deaths, a riot, fires, and stabbings led the US Department of Justice to investigate the Alvin S. Glenn Detention ...

Richland County Administrator Leonardo Brown issued ... conduct a study evaluating the jail’s inmate classification system; develop and implement a contraband interdiction plan; provide remedial ...