Months after two inmates were killed on consecutive days at Lee Correctional Institution several other prisoners were charged in the deaths, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Seven inmates were killed and at least 17 more were injured in seven hours of chaos at a maximum security prison holding some of the state's most dangerous convicts, authorities ...

At the time of the riots Sunday at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, six officers were working in the three housing units involved in the melee — two unarmed officers per 250 to 260 inmates ...

Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in the worst U.S. prison riot in a quarter-century, officials said ...