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100 charged in ‘Prison Empire;’ South Carolina’s largest drug ring
Associated Press Via WSOCTV.com ^ | March 8, 2021 | Associated Press Staff

Posted on 03/10/2021 5:39:41 AM PST by buckalfa

COLUMBIA, S.C. — State prosecutors have charged 100 people in what they said Monday was the largest number of defendants ever indicted in one drug operation in South Carolina courts.

Ten of those charged are currently state prison inmates who used contraband cellphones to continue to run drug rings and other criminal enterprises behind bars, state Attorney General Alan Wilson told a news conference.

Investigators also arrested a paralegal who was sending drugs and cellphones into prison inside hollowed-out transcripts of criminal proceedings, authorities said.

Wilson and Corrections Department Director Bryan Stirling again called to be able to jam cellphone signals in state prisons, something not allowed under federal law.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsoctv.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: drugs; empire; prison; southcarolina; wod
Where there is a will, there is a way. Begs the question what is the corrections department cut?
1 posted on 03/10/2021 5:39:41 AM PST by buckalfa
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a paralegal who was sending drugs and cellphones into prison inside hollowed-out transcripts of criminal proceedings, authorities said.

Amazing. Someone’s not doing their job.


2 posted on 03/10/2021 5:51:49 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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Native South Carolina costal residents used to wonder how all those retired law enforcement and retired government officials who moved there from up North and the Midwest were able to afford multimillion dollar homes, country club memberships and expensive cars when they spent their entire careers in government service. They don’t wonder anymore.


3 posted on 03/10/2021 5:54:03 AM PST by allendale
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I’d be interested in seeing the demographic breakdown of the ones that were charged.


4 posted on 03/10/2021 6:27:40 AM PST by vetvetdoug (,)
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Native South Carolina costal residents used to wonder how all those retired law enforcement and retired government officials who moved there from up North and the Midwest were able to afford multimillion dollar homes, country club memberships and expensive cars when they spent their entire careers in government service. They don’t wonder anymore.

One thing the War on Drugs has accomplished is giving criminals the means and motive to corrupt law enforcement.

5 posted on 03/10/2021 6:41:34 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Judging by the names - whiteys..


6 posted on 03/10/2021 7:05:35 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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hollowed-out transcripts of criminal proceedings
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So those transcripts really were full of cr*p.


7 posted on 03/10/2021 7:43:12 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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