South Carolina Department of Corrections Web site. State Policies Governing Media Access View the South Carolina Department of Corrections policy on Employee and Inmate Relations with the News Media and Others . Members of the media are considered no different from any visitor to a prison facility.
Reporters can be on prisoners mail, phone or visitation lists.
Phone calls are limited to 15 minutes per call. Calls between journalists and prisoners may be recorded. No recording tools of any kind are allowed, not even pencil and paper. In order to visit a prisoner, a journalist must be on a list of visitors compiled by the prisoner. Each prisoner is allowed 15 people on his or her list at any given time.