Like California, South Carolina has some of the worst prisons and some of the best. Its maximum security Central Correctional Institution may be the worst dungeon in the country, a 104-year-old five-story granite mass with iron catwalks from which, in the past, inmates had thrown guards and fellow inmates to their death below. But architecture is not the critical judgement of a prison system. The state's director of corrections, William D. Leeke is trying to get rid of his dungeon, but in the meantime he has started a program of work release centers.
Description:Two companion articles to the conclusion of the Shame of Prisons series, focusing on different reform and rehabilitation programs in two states.
Rights: The Washington Post, noticed on page with Shame of Prisons series
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