MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCSC) - As a new Berkeley County jail expansion is being built, inmates say they have faced severe overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and inhumane treatment inside the old facility.

Jessica Watkins and Tiondre Perry are two women who currently call the Berkeley County Jail home. Watkins has been in the jail for two months and Perry for over a year.

“We have people on the floor everywhere; five on the floor right now, and just on our side,” Perry said.

“I do not feel like a human; I absolutely do not feel like a human at all,” Watkins said. “There’s animal cruelty, this is human cruelty.”

They are just two of over 500 inmates held inside the facility that was built only to hold 291, leaving the jail dangerously overcrowded.

“Anytime you got that many people inside

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