An inmate who was stabbed in the head by another inmate at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center last year has filed a lawsuit against Richland County and its sheriff’s department.
Chad Andrews was being housed at the detention center — which received a scathing report from the U.S. Department of Justice early last year for its “culture of violence” — when he was attacked and stabbed multiple times in the head by his cellmate, according to a lawsuit filed in Richland County in mid-February.
A day before the March 20 attack, a person acting as Andrews’ power of attorney — who was named in the suit only by his first name, Patrick — came to the county’s detention center to request that Andrews be moved over fears for his safety, the lawsuit said. An investigator told Patrick he would “speak with [Andrews] the following day.”…