Smuggled Drugs Killed 2 Inmates at Troubled South Carolina Jail, Sheriff Says

Published on July 28, 2024

COLUMBIA, S.C.— Two inmates died from drug overdoses in two days at a South Carolina jail, which has been under a federal civil rights investigation, authorities said. The inmates at the jail in Richland County were killed by two different drugs, one on Monday and a second on Tuesday, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said. Deputies are investigating how the drugs got into the jail. It’s smuggling, either through jail employees or inmates as they are booked, the sheriff said. “There is no magician that pops them in there. Someone has to bring them physically in,” Lott said at a Wednesday news conference....

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