A Richland County inmate was hospitalized with a head injury after an assault. The suspect allegedly also spat on staff.

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

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 ...

A Department of Justice report on dangerous, unconstitutional conditions in Richland County jails should be required reading, even if county officials don’t want you to read it.

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 ...

While the inmate population grew nearly 30% between 2022 and 2024, the number of staff only grew from 90 to 101, according to Disability Rights’ lawsuit. This fell far short of the 294 staff members ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has released its findings on the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Richland County, describing a “culture of violence” that became “pervasive, systematic and ...

Richland County deputies are investigating an inmate assault at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center that left one person hospitalized with a head injury.

On a per-inmate basis, “edged weapon” incidents were 18 times more common in the Richland jail than in Florida’s Miami-Dade County jail. In example after example, inmates are raped ...

Glenn Detention Center in Columbia is being charged with stabbing a fellow detainee multiple times. The Richland County Sheriff's ... first degree toward an inmate. Deputies said around 11:50 ...