Month: June 2017

Marty Hamilton has spent 30 years behind bars, and he’s only 47. The North Charleston native has been in prison seven times, and twice spent a year in the county jail. During the brief periods in between, he was a stone-cold criminal. Hamilton terrorized the streets of North Charleston during its most violent years, selling … Read more

More than a quarter of the crime committed in Charleston County last year was the work of just 1,900 men. And 12 of them are sitting in Amy Barch’s classroom this morning. Many of them are drug dealers, but some dabble in carjacking, home invasion and armed robbery. A few have shot people, a couple … Read more