Robert Mills-designed Union (SC) Jail, ca. 1930s.

Prisons and Penitentiaries

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  • Title Prisons and Penitentiaries
  • Author
  • Keywords first significant jail in South Carolina, a twelve-foot square designed to accommodate sixteen prisoners, was built in Charleston in 1769, Central Correctional Institution (CCI), Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina Department of Corrections, Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution, located at the Broad River correctional complex in Columbia; and Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date March 29, 2024
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 22, 2022
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