A total of a dozen inmates are now facing charges after a South Carolina jail riot in which two guards were held hostage and injured. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced charges against 10 inmates during a news conference Wednesday in Columbia. Inmates attacked two officers and destroyed much of a unit housing about 50 inmates before a special team “used a show of force” to end the riot, Lott said. Deputies ordered everyone back into their cells and then began taking them individually to another wing of the jail, Lott said. The jail is named for officer Alvin S. Glenn, who was beaten and strangled by three inmates trying to escape in 2000.

Source: thestar September 22, 2021 23:03 UTC