COLUMBIA, S.C. — An inmate at a South Carolina prison is dead following a fight inside a cell.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections Police Services said Monday that Carl Andrew Pollen Jr. around 3 a.m. Monday.
Pollen was an inmate at Perry Correctional Institution in the town of Pelzer in the Upstate. Officers say he got into a fight with a fellow inmate.
He died an hour after being injured.
SC prisons records show Pollen was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction out of Horry County, and had been behind bars since 2012.
The S.C. Law Enforcement Division and the prisons police continue to investigate.