WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 14, 2025: The Justice Department announced today its findings that conditions of confinement at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (the Jail) in Columbia, South Carolina, violate the Eighth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The department's report details the findings of a comprehensive investigation of the Jail, which is funded and operated by Richland County through an Administrator an more PR

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Jan. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release on Jan. 15, 2025: The Justice Department announced today its findings that conditions of confinement at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center (the Jail) in Columbia, South Carolina, violate the Eighth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The department's report details the findings of a comprehensive investigation of the Jail, which is funded and opera more PR

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Jan. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Jake Rupert, 40, of Lexington, was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to walkaway escape from a federal residential re-entry facility. Evidence obtained in the investigation revealed that on the morning of March 5, 2024, Rupert walked away, without permission, from a federal halfway house in Columbia. In January 2024, Rupert tran more PR