[1] The Women's Reception and Evaluation Center, which processes all females entering SCDC, is in the prison.

[citation needed] The prison opened in 1973, as "Women's Correctional Institution".

It was renamed in 2002 in honor of the first female warden of a maximum-security male prison in South Carolina, Camille Griffin Graham.

[3] The prison houses the State of South Carolina death row for women.

[1] In January 2011, a young female prisoner with a history of mental illness succeeded in committing suicide.