Solitary for Social Media
Live 5 Investigates: Solitary for Social Media
Live 5 Investigates: Solitary for Social Media
J. Edward Bell has accepted an invitation to join an exclusive group of the nation’s best trial lawyers known as the Inner Circle of Advocates.
Each year some 1,000 people die in jail – and that’s just the deaths that are reported. Many more go unacknowledged, or fly under the radar.
As most people are aware, prisoners have rights as stipulated by the U.S. Constitution. However, we have found that many prisoners and their families are often confused about the differences between jails and prisons.
In the state of South Carolina, many inmates are not receiving adequate medical care. In fact, cases of negligence, in which inmates have received detrimental, even life-threatening, medical care, are on the rise.
Unlike people outside prison walls, inmates are often forgotten citizens, at the mercy of a penal system that often treats them like they are invisible.