Overcrowding takes its toll on SC corrections officers

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Prison staff delay prolongs crowding

By Mike Cherney
Myrtle Beach Sun News

In a general housing wing at J. Reuben Long Detention Center, eight men sleep in a small room with only four bunk beds. Elsewhere in the wing, four men sleep in a room with only two bunk beds.

Those without a bed sleep on green mats on the floor.

Sympathy for these criminals and others charged with crimes - not everyone in the jail has been to trial - may be limited, but the overcrowding at the county jail has an effect on jail officers, too ... Full Story

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