BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Authorities say an inmate has been fatally stabbed at a South Carolina prison.
News outlets report the director of information services for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Jeffrey Taillon, says 51-year-old Larry Jerome Rainey died in an inmate-on-inmate altercation at Lee Correctional Institution on Monday.
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Online public records show Rainey was serving four years for pointing a firearm in Aiken County and 15 years for common law robbery in Barnwell, with a long list of disciplinary actions in prison. He was projected to be released in 2020.
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The circumstances leading up to Rainey's death are unclear. Taillon says the Department of Corrections is investigating. Further details have not been released.
The Bishopville prison is a Level 3 maximum security facility for men.
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