TECHNOLOGY TO DISABLE CONTRABAND CELL PHONES IN PRISON IS EXPANDING TO SOUTH CAROLINA PRISONS1

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to address what the head of South Carolina's prison system
calls for a it calls a public safety threat. Cell
phones smuggle behind bars. Law enforcement has connected these phones
to drug trafficking, hits ordered on prison guards, and even
the deadliest prison riot and South Carolina history. This is
life and death. This affects prison safety, says the Corrections Director.

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Nearly eleven million dollars in the new state budget will
bring a cell phone intradiction program to several state prisons.
Through it, illegal cell phones being used behind prison walls
can be identified now and turned off by carriers in
a matter of days. The Department of Corrections allocation is
short of the approximately thirty millions Sterling wanted this year
to bring the program to all prisons at once and

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to keep it funded. I think there's about seven or
eight we can go with the money they gave us,
and hopefully we'll get more next year, said Sterling. Sterling
has been pleading with the federal government for years to
let the state block cell phone signals inside its prisons,
but to no avail. Which is really incredibly shocking. How
much business these the individuals do in crime that they
do out there with their cell phone use. The cell

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phone intradiction programs to compromise. They strugt to address the issue,
and the Department of Correction set a pilot of the
program and lead correctional institution has been successful. South Carolina
is the first day in the nation to employ this
type of tool, which is insane. People are coming to
South Carolina see what we're doing. You can actually see
this already happening in El Salvador. The program is among
several tactics the Department of Corrections takes they try to

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keep out contraband, including searches, scanners, drones, and netting. Sterling
also said the most significant action they can take to
keep prisons safe is hiring more qualified officers as well.