Thank You SCDC Director Bryan Stirling and SLED Chief Mark Keel
Channel: Henry McMaster
Date: 2017-07-07

On behalf of all South Carolinians, I want to thank Director Bryan Stirling and SLED Chief Mark Keel for their outstanding work in locating and arresting the criminal who escaped from Leiber Correctional Facility on Tuesday.
But threats of this kind are not over. They are growing.
As Director Stirling often says, a cell phone is the most dangerous piece of contraband an inmate can have. With cell phones, prisoners have unfettered access to the outside world and can use that access to conduct criminal enterprises from within the walls. That poses a threat to our correctional officers and to all of us.
As fast as we can confiscate the phones, new ones are smuggled in by drones or thrown in over the fences.
The best way to end this threat is to jam, block and disrupt the cell phone signal. Unfortunately, the FCC – so far – will not allow this. Be assured: we are working diligently to persuade them otherwise.
We intend to do whatever it takes to keep all South Carolinians safe.