I was there for 2 years 2009-2011 and went back in 2012 for 6 months. I'm actually on the think twice video on the scdjj youtube page. If you a kid do not go to this place that place isn't where you wanna be. Try to stay in school and out of trouble. I'm so happy that i changed my life around and didn't look back at 25 I haven't been in any more trouble with the law enforcement.

did a year here when i was 14... i am 26 now havnt been in trouble since and i can honestly say it was one of the most rewarding years of my life.... crazy place with all the riots, but other wise it is a very good place for at risk youth to get the wake up call they need to get on the right track as they are looking forward to transitioning into adulthood....

Anyone else from Columbia?

My mom was so quick to send me here over the littlest of things it was crazy

I was one of those 1200 back in 91-94 they fuck alot of us up mentally.

when i was 16 i was locked up down there... im 34 now and i had to block alot of my childhood out and i cant remember which place it was. i recently started having memories of those times and for some reason i wish i could find it. .

Here from Danielle bregoli vid

I myself have been to what then was called CStop , not sure if it still is, anyways i found a way to “escape” to only be caught that night over a stupiud mistake. I did my 30 days to go home and found myself restless ,and wanted something more ,but i couldnt tell u know what. However i somehow found myself in R and E , and ran away from there to again be caught several hours later after the girl i plotted with to run with me. We hid under a drainage pipe till dark close to what we then thought was a fenced in hospital. Our plan was to climb over fence , go into hospital call a taxi and when we got to wherever it was we thnought we were going to just RUN!! I climb up to the top first to find this curled wire starring back at me that i didnt notice in the dark. Im inv invincable , im a quick cant be touched 15 or 16 year old . I can get over this ! I throw one leg over and soon as i go to pull other i feel it , i feel this sharp razor cut pain . I yell down to the girl im stuck and im cut , and i kno am afrain to move. Cant go back ,cant go over. What do i do? She yells “ go Carolyn , I hear voices and dogs. I panick and i did it . I wont lie im in pain and im not messed up, but im cut up pretty good. I go for it, for i fear being caged up alot more than a few cuts and brusises . I go for it ! I somehow manage to make it over ,and i swear i think i jumped straight to the ground after getting over .Thats how bad i then thought i needed to be with my friends back home living life on without me .You know the ones who i am talking about . The Friends who love you , and write you letters in school signed besties forever or bff. The ones who want to go shopping with them only to try and get you to steal for them ( By the way I Never tried that ) for i feared getting caught. The friends who tell you they will always be there for you ? Those are the ones that never wrote or called my mother to ask how i was , just Notta . They are the ones i wanted to run too. So Here i go, I hit the ground with pride and a thump . LIL >> lol 😝 I so happy i dont even feel my pain , I Carolyn C have finallly in my life accomplished somethning that most cant. I start to run when i hear my name being called., i almost forgot K i was so filled with all the emotions. I immed. Run back to her . She gets to the top and she freezes. I remind you she saw what i just went thru, and this was a girl i actually went to school with , she was tough as nails. She was a girl i used to fear in school . K would fight anybody, and shes by my side now needing me. I take my shirt off climp back up throw it over wire. She did make it , but the shirt was no help.lol i laugh now. Anyways were both full of joy and really clueless to what we had just done. REAL CLUELESS ! Theres a tree to our left , lets go by it cause itgs dark and noone will see us, we’ll wait by it untill we nerve up to go inside the lit up hospital. I want you to know most people would say “didnt the fence tell u something? “ well when you are 15 , feel trapped , and unloved. like you dont matter , your life is a dissappointment and prob always will be. youll never be anything. You start to build up inside your inner walls this great need to conquer something , whether it be good or bad. just something , and maybe sometimes we just need a reaction from another to remind us were even alive. to feel. Even when your bad, you get into trouble ,and u mumble to urself “ i hate her or whatever it may be” , but it is so to something that makes you feel at least cared for sum. i craved it ! i needed it like some need a drug. i needed to be loved ! a love that is BELIEVED and FELT. Im getting off trac.... Anyways long story short, we head toward the tree. FREEEEEZEEE!!!!! We Actually broke onto Kirkland ( i think it was ) Prison yard. Must i say , we didnt need to worry about where we were sleeping that night. We could have been shot.. this is a true story , and if anyuone knows a man named Ed Boyd. He was a director i think back then.. big shout out to you Mr Boyd. Youd be proud of me today !! I stand

“My Home Is Fucked Up”

Bruhhhhh fuck the yard 😂😂😂 i remember just about everybody in this video. Shit been lit

I was there in 1974-1976. I was the first MAYDAY QUEEN.

I did 59mothz straight behind that fence... Off ay 24-48 month bid 96-2001 Real shit willow lane Delta Alpha 864 Boyz Shit. Lock up MSU SANTEE many of timez. I’ma ay grown man now but I was wild back then. But it prepared me for everything in life.!!!

I've been on all three campuses Willow Lane John g and Birchwood and two dorms on each yard that place was a madhouse between 94 and 97 I was there when they took the weights took our clothes and changed all the policies

Prepares kids for scdc

P.s. lets not forget and iour turn our backs on our out of control young people. Really , all they want is to feel love and not just be told. Love is something meant for you to feel and i promise the responce is rewarding. Love to all you struggling teens and the nots ! Never Give Up !! I am so sorry for TYPOS. Trying to type left handed only . Im right hand. Have a good day to you all. Lets change this world if we all worked together we could..,.love to all

Graduated from Birchwood in 87 lived in willow lane Gama intermittently Zeta

I went threw there I learned a lot from there santee dorm

I wuz there Jon G Oak n pine dorm 2002 Gladiator Days..

John g 2003-2008 oak and elm

2007- 2016..... I could right a book!!!!!!!

Who are those people in ACUs?

i love the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice