Lee Correctional Institution is the main high-security state prison for men located in Bishopville, South Carolina.
On April 15, 2018, seven inmates were killed in the Lee Correctional Prison Riot.
The facility opened in 1993 to replace the decommissioned Central Correctional Institution which had been the state's primary prison for over 130 years.
[1][2] At the time, Lee cost $46 million dollars to construct.
[3] It remains the largest maximum-security prisons for males in the South Carolina state system.