South Carolina § 24-1-280 Employees of Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or Department of Mental Health as peace officers.

South Carolina Statutes

§ 24-1-280 — Employees of Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or Department of Mental Health as peace officers.

South Carolina § 24-1-280

Title 24CORRECTIONS, JAILS, PROBATIONS, PAROLES AND PARDONS

Ch. 1DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

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S.C. Code Ann. § 24-1-280 (2026).

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An employee of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, or the Office of Mental Health whose assigned work location is one of the correctional facilities of the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, while performing his officially assigned duty relating to the custody, control, transportation, or recapture of an inmate within the jurisdiction of his department, or an inmate of any jail, penitentiary, prison, public work, chain gang, or overnight lockup of the State or any political subdivision of it not within the jurisdiction of his department, has the status of a peace officer anywhere in the State in any matter relating to the custody, control, transportation, or recapture of the inmate.

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An employee of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, or the Office of Mental Health whose assigned work location is one of the correctional facilities of the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, while performing his officially assigned duty relating to the custody, control, transportation, or recapture of an inmate within the jurisdiction of his department, or an inmate of any jail, penitentiary, prison, public work, chain gang, or overnight lockup of the State or any political subdivision of it not within the jurisdiction of his department, has the status of a peace officer anywhere in the State in any matter relating to the custody, control, transportation, or recapture of the inmate.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 55-359; 1963 (53) 505; 1974 (58) 2175; 1999 Act No. 72, SECTION 2003 Act No. 12, SECTION 3. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18.