Larry Rainey
Larry Jerome Rainey, 51, was held at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, when he died on November 13, 2017. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said he was fatally stabbed in an altercation with another person held at the prison and that it is investigating. The department has not described what led up to the attack. Rainey was a man, and his death was the subject of an investigation at the time of reporting.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Larry Rainey was fatally stabbed in an altercation with another inmate at Lee Correctional Institution and that it was investigating.
Reported by: South Carolina Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Jeffrey Taillon, director of information services, South Carolina Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
Sources (5)
- Incarceration Transparency, South Carolina Deaths Behind Bars (Prof. Madalyn Wasilczuk and Incarceration Transparency)
- Inmate fatally stabbed at Lee Correctional Institution
- UPDATE: Inmate stabbed to death at Lee Correctional identified
- Inmate stabbed to death inside South Carolina prison
- A sampling of violence at South Carolina prisons