Clashes among inmates at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville took place at 7.15 p.m. on Sunday and order was completely restored by about 3 a.m. on Monday, the state's Corrections Department said on its Facebook page.
No prison officers were wounded, it added. The Department described the fights as "multiple inmate-on-inmate altercations."
Lee Correctional Institution, which opened in 1993, houses about 1,500 male inmates -- some of South Carolina's most violent and longest-serving offenders.
Two officers were stabbed here in a 2015 fight. In February, one inmate killed another.
Lee has the most number of deaths than any South Carolina prison in recent years. In 2017, four inmates were killed by a pair of prisoners in the state's Kirkland Correctional Institution.
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