Broad River Correctional Institution Explained

Prison Name:	Broad River Correctional Institution
Location:	4460 Broad River Road Columbia, South Carolina
Coordinates:	34.0742°N -81.0978°W
Opened:	1988
Managed By:	South Carolina Department of Corrections
Warden:	Michael Stephan

The Broad River Correctional Institution (BRCI) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Columbia, South Carolina.^[1] South Carolina's execution chamber is located in Broad River.^[2] The adjacent Kirkland Correctional Institution lies just to its south side.

The prison opened in 1988.^[1] In January 1990, death row inmates were moved from the Central Correctional Institution to Broad River. In 1990, executions began at BRCI. On April 12, 1997, death row inmates were moved to the Lieber Correctional Institution.^[2] In September 2017, death row inmates were moved to Kirkland Correctional Institution. On July 11, 2019, death row inmates were moved from Kirkland Correctional Institution to the housing unit that was originally built for them at Broad River.^[3]

Notable inmates

Death row

• Steven Bixby – perpetrator of the 2003 standoff in Abbeville, South Carolina
• Richard Bernard Moore – convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a robbery
• Stephen Stanko – convicted of murdering two people.
• James William Wilson, Jr. – perpetrator of the Oakland Elementary School shooting

Executed

• John Arnold – executed on March 6, 1998, for the racially-motivated murder of Betty Gardner
• Joseph Ernest Atkins – executed on January 23, 1999, for the murders of Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins
• Larry Gene Bell – executed on October 4, 1996, for the murders of Sharon Faye Smith and Debra Helmick
• Joseph Gardner – executed on December 5, 2008, for the murder of Melissa McLauchlin
• Donald Henry Gaskins – executed on September 6, 1991, for the murder of Rudolph Tyner, a fellow inmate on death row
• Shawn Paul Humphries – executed on December 2, 2005, for the murder of Dickie Smith
• Richard Longworth – executed on April 15, 2005, for the murders of Alex Hopps and James Green
• John Plath – executed on July 10, 1998, for the racially-motivated murder of Betty Gardner
• James Earl Reed – executed on June 20, 2008, for the murders of Barbara and Joseph Lafayette
• David Rocheville – executed on December 3, 1999, for the murders of Alex Hopps and James Green
• Michael Torrence – executed on September 6, 1996, for the murders of Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush and Cynthia Williams
• James Neil Tucker – executed on May 28, 2004, for the murders of Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon
• Hastings Arthur Wise – executed on November 4, 2005, for the murders of Charles Griffeth, David Moore, Leonard Filyaw and Sheryl Wood

Non-death row

• Quincy Allen – serial killer who murdered four people
• Todd Kohlhepp – serial killer, mass murderer and rapist who pled guilty to 7 murders, 2 kidnappings and 1 sexual assault in 2017

External links

• South Carolina Department of Corrections

Notes and References

1. "Broad River Correctional Institution ". South Carolina Department of Corrections. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.
2. "Death Row/Capital Punishment ". South Carolina Department of Corrections. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.
3. Web site: SCDC moves Death Row from Kirkland to Broad River Correctional Institution. Miller. Kiana. wistv.com. en-US. 13 July 2019.