A LOCAL FEDERAL PRISON UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. AND THAT INVESTIGATION REVEALED CRIMES COMMITTED BY INMATES AND OFFICERS. WESH MICHELLE MEREDITH LOOKS AT THE STUNNING VIOLENCE REVEALED AT THE COLEMAN PRISON AND WHAT’S BEING DONE. SO THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. THE COLEMAN FEDERAL PRISON IN SUMTER COUNTY HOUSES INMATES CONVICTED OF EVERYTHING FROM MURDER TO CHECK FRAUD. A VOLATILE COMBINATION UNDER VOLATILE CONDITIONS. JUST HOW MUCH THE ANSWER SEEMED TO SURPRISE EVEN THE FEDS THEMSELVES. THE FEDERAL PRISONS NEED TO BE SAFE AND SECURE SPACES FOR EVERYBODY, AND THERE’S TIMES WHERE THAT’S NOT THE CASE. WITH OVER 6000 INMATES. THE LARGEST FEDERAL PRISON IN THE ENTIRE NATION, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, LAUNCHED A MASSIVE INVESTIGATION TO SEE WHAT KIND OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES MIGHT BE HAPPENING BEHIND THE WALLS AND BARBED WIRE. AND WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER, IT LED TO THE ARREST OF OVER A DOZEN PEOPLE, INMATES AND CORRECTIONS OFFICERS AS WELL, ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ONE CORRECTIONS OFFICER WAS ALLEGEDLY HAVING SEX WITH AN INMATE FOR OVER A YEAR. SHE, THE CORRECTIONS OFFICER, EVEN OFFERED TO SEND THE INMATE’S FAMILY MONEY, ALL RECORDED IN A PHONE CALL. ANOTHER CORRECTIONS OFFICER AGREED TO SMUGGLE 70G OF METH TO AN INMATE. HE GOT BUSTED, DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS PLAYING. LET’S MAKE A DEAL WITH AN UNDERCOVER AGENT. AND THAT’S JUST THE CORRECTIONS OFFICERS INMATE ARREST INCLUDES MURDER ONE ACCUSED OF STRANGLING HIS CELLMATE TO DEATH USING A TORN BED SHEET. ANOTHER ALLEGEDLY STABBING HIS CELLMATE USING A 6.5IN BLADED WEAPON. WHAT SPARKED THE INVESTIGATION INTO COLEMAN? AND HOW IS THIS ALL HAPPENING? GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WOULDN’T ELABORATE OTHER THAN TO SAY THEY WERE BEING PROACTIVE. LIKE I SAID, THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE HARDWORKING, DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS AND DO NOT WANT TO TOLERATE MISCONDUCT BY ANYONE AND SAYS THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, THE AGENCY AND ITS PARTNERS WILL BE PROACTIVELY LOOKING TO MAKE MORE ARRESTS AT THE FEDERAL PRISON MICHELLE MEREDITH WESH 2 NEWS. THERE ARE SEVERAL BUILDINGS ON THE COLEMAN PRISON COMPOUN