SPARTANBURG — A 29-year-old man who died last year in the Spartanburg County Detention Center appeared to be ignored in a jail cell for hours before he was found dead the next morning, according ...

The lawsuit, filed against Spartanburg County and the Sheriff’s Office, alleges Lavell Lane was subject to inhumane treatment that led to his death.

The filing period for the special election to fill the seat of Spartanburg County Sheriff opened Friday. READ MORE: <a href=" ...

SPARTANBURG — In the year following the state Department of Corrections’ 2022 inspection of the Spartanburg County Detention Center, conditions got no better, according to an inspection report ...

A lawsuit on behalf of a man who died in-custody last year at the Spartanburg County Detention Center was filed Monday morning. Lavell Lane, who was 29, died at the jail on Oct. 3, hours after he ...

Bill Rhyne is a former United States Marine who went on to serve as a deputy in the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office. He later worked for the South Carolina Highway Patrol. In an announcement ...

The mother of an inmate who hanged himself in his jail cell back in 2017 filed a lawsuit against Spartanburg County, the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office and the Spartanburg County Detentio… ...

Detention Center in Spartanburg County holds graduation for jail inmates who have completed a work program called “Operation Educate” Updated: 7:49 PM EST Dec 8, 2015 Editorial Standards ⓘ ...

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright speaks at a May 29, 2024, press conference after a detention center employee was arrested for smuggling contraband into the jail.

The Herald-Journal previously reported there were 18 deaths at the jail between 2015 and 2021, the most of any county in the state. There were five deaths in 2022.

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. — According to the new findings from Incarceration Transparency South Carolina, at least 777 people have died in SC detention centers from 2015-2021 — 18 of them died ...

For the second time in a week, a staff member at the Spartanburg County Detention Center was arrested on charges of smuggling contraband into the jail. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said ...