"South Carolina's prisons hold 369 illegal immigrants serving sentences for killing, raping, robbing and other offenses, a population that has nearly doubled in the past five years, according to state prison officials.

Officials say they may not be the only illegals in the prisons because the system relies mostly on inmates to tell them their immigration status when they are admitted, raising questions about whose job it is to determine their status and what happens when they're freed after serving their sentences...."

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080621/NEWS01/806210323/1004

Tim Smith, Greenville News, 21 June 2008

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