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Monday Feb 6 | Morning News

Official: 1 fired from SC jail after inmate escape

Authorities say 39-year-old James Sanders of Ridgeville escaped from the jail Jan.

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Fri Jan 27, 2012

WLTX-TV Columbia

Man Escapes From Berkeley County Jail

Sheriff's spokesman Dan Moon says 39-year-old James A. Sanders of Ridgeville was sentenced to time served in jail for a restraining order violation on Thursday afternoon in Moncks Corner and was to go back to jail to await a hearing on a criminal domestic violence charge when he escaped.

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Fri Jan 20, 2012

Rock Hill Herald

At least 2 officers injured in SC prison riot

The only two correctional officers standing watch at a Ridgeville prison dormitory that houses 229 of the state's most egregious offenders were injured Wednesday night after inmates lashed out and set off a five-hour riot.

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ABC News 4 Charleston

Officer attacked with pipe during Ridgeville prison riot

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. Lieber Correctional Institution houses some of the state's most dangerous criminal offenders.

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Wed Jan 11, 2012

WMBF

Dorchester home invasion captured on victim's cell phone

Authorities released a 911 recording Tuesday of a woman who was able to capture a home invasion in progress on her cell phone at her Eagle Drive home in Ridgeville last month.

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