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South Carolina Prison Case Study

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History
South Carolina South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) was developed in 1866 because the South Carolina General Assembly detected awful conditions that existed in the county jails. With the help of the general assembly, inhumane treatments of inmates were put to an end, and public hanging ended in 1878. Before the 1900’s inmates were forced to take baths in tub where the water could not have been changed until all of them were finished. Until 1937, women were still being housed in the same facilities as men. SCDC chose to use their inmates to help maintain good road conditions; if a county chose not to do so inmates would be transferred to the state. Commissioner Ellis MacDougall striped inmates of their chains and stripes when he first got hired in 1962. He created schools for the inmates and had guards undergo training programs. By 1975, the inmate population grew to the point where bed space had become insufficient and became a constant problem. To reduce …show more content…

There are over 8,800 inmates aged 36-55 in the corrections system. Blacks are overrepresented in the corrections system with more than 13,900 inmates; that is more than 6,000 Whites that are incarcerated (SCDC, 2014). The trend in the South Carolina Department of Corrections has been fluctuating over the last five years. South Carolina’s per capita incarceration rate is 683 inmates per 100,000 residents. As of 2015, the daily cost per inmate based on State Funds Spent is $48.96; cost per inmate based on All Funds Spent is $54.05.
Montana
Over the last five years, the trend in the Montana Department of Corrections has declined. The per capita incarceration rate is 591 per 100,000 of all ages. To incarcerate a male it costs about $94/day. At the Montana Women’s’ Prison the cost per inmate is roughly $116.45. Due to the small youth population, the juvenile facilities daily cost vary between $283 and

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