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LOCAL HISTORY: Behind the bars, a look into Susan Smith’s life in prison [Video]

In the fall of 1994, a nine-day search unfolded in Union County, South Carolina, for two missing boys, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander Smith.(Video above: Susan Smith’s false claims 10/26/1994) Michael and Alex’s mother, Susan Smith, had claimed a Black man kidnapped them during a carjacking. After nine days of a very public search, Susan confessed to driving her children into John D. Long Lake in an attempted suicide.In July 1995, Susan Smith’s trial took place with the prosecution arguing she should be sentenced to death and her defense succeeding in sparing her by a life sentence in prison.So, what was the aftermath while Smith was in prison?Smith’s Life in PrisonAfter receiving her life sentence, Smith was booked into the Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution in Columbia on July 28, 1995. In August 2000, Smith told administrators at the prison she had sex four times on prison grounds with 50-year-old …

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