South Carolina prison has to pay $920,000 water and sewer bill [View all]

RIDGELAND, S.C. (AP) — A Jasper County town is being paid nearly $920,000 by the South Carolina prison system to end a four-year dispute over a facility's water and sewer bill.

Corrections Director Bryan Stirling told the State Fiscal Accountability Authority earlier this month that he didn't want to pay the bill, but he felt like he had no choice because state law allows the increase.

“They literally came to us and said they’d shut the water off,” Stirling said, a move that would cause chaotic and dangerous conditions behind bars.

Stirling asked the five-member authority that oversees agency spending, made up of the governor, treasurer, comptroller general, House Ways and Means Chairman and Senate Finance Chairman, to put pressure on legislators to do something to prevent another town from taking advantage of the state.

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(Bowling Green Daily News)