ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - Authorities searched Sunday for three inmates, including two charged with murder, who escaped from a South Carolina jail.
The three who escaped Saturday night are considered dangerous, the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office said in Facebook post.
Sheriff Leroy Ravenell identified the three as 27-year-old Tyshon Demontrea Johnson; 20-year-old Curtis Ray Green; and 27-year-old Christopher Shannon Boltin.
Authorities said Johnson and Green are charged with murder while Boltin faces a carjacking and grand larceny charge.
The sheriff’s office didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking details about the escape.
An inmate serving a sentence for violation probation escaped last year from the jail, which was built in 1967. County officials have approved construction of a new $26 million jail, but it’s expected to be at least two years before it’s completed.
In June 2017, the Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reported that county Administrator Harold Young said the current detention center does not have much-needed technology. “It’s way past its prime as far as a detention center facility,” Young said.
County Planning Director Richard Hall said in January that the new facility would “meet all state requirements for jails.”
“The current jail was built in 1967,” Hall said. “It doesn’t meet many standards.”
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