Posted on 09/15/2023 7:59:33 PM PDT by Perseverando
BISHOPVILLE, SC (WIS) — Investigators raided a local South Carolina prison last week, after finding a contraband cell phone with child pornography. But the targets of this prison search, weren’t the inmates
By the time investigators left, evidence bags were loaded with narcotics, shivs capable of killing, and cell phones that could unravel prison safety. And two correctional officers were taken out in handcuffs.
It was a crackdown long in the making on the Lee Correctional Institution that has seen about 620 contraband cell phones identified and shut down in a month, according to officials. The South Carolina Department of Corrections is accusing correctional officers of becoming corrupted and in on the selling of contraband in the prison, where cell phones can be sold to criminals for as much as $6,000 a pop.
WIS had an exclusive look inside the prison and was there during the search that was a surprise to everyone inside the prison, including correctional officers who were given no time to cover their tracks.
“You raise your hand and you make an oath to protect and serve the citizens of south Carolina,” S.C. Department of Corrections Director, Bryan Stirling, said. “You take their tax money as a salary and you’re caught doing the wrong thing, you’re going to be in trouble. And that’s criminal legal trouble.”
During the search, investigators found shanks in one employee’s office and another in a car.
That day, the state OIG arrested two employees at Lee Correctional Institution.
Investigators arrested longtime employee and food service supervisor, Brian Keely. They say they found contraband in his cafeteria office, including cell phones and narcotics. During the search, S.C. Department of Corrections said investigators also found evidence of contraband deals with inmates on his cellphone.
Keely is charged with providing prisoners with contraband
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620 cell phones? Seriously?
Would it be legal to put a Faraday Cage around the cell blocks? I guess the only problem would be that police radios would not work.
Hey, whatever happened to the prison guards who shut off the cameras and let the ass-ass-in in to kill Epstein?
Give ‘em some “Tucker telephones”
I think they got nothing negative and were transferred. Corrupt system.
Alex Murdaugh is deeply saddened.
Good. Get rid of every single corrupt C/O.
CC
The easier idea would be cell phone jammers. The FCC won’t let them do it.
CC
With good reason...and you know why.
They are indiscriminate. They block ALL signals, including the ones public safety might just wanna use. Perhaps some sort of localized tower combined with an encryption scheme utilizing gps?
CC
Bingo!
Read my FRmail....but I think you already did.
and what did CO's use for communication before cell phones?
you can jam a cell without jamming a radio. 2 completely different signals.
Way not comeply Ban cell phones in prison. CO's included.
“shivs capable of killing, and cell phones that could unravel prison safety”
Who writes this crap?
I never thought I would be nostalgic for wings. Sigh.
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