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Changes at Lee Correctional Since 2018
Changes at Lee Correctional Since 2018
● Purchased high-tech mobile scanners, which can detect cell phones on or inside a
person as they walk past the device at all institutions statewide. These have proven to
be essential in the search for contraband.
● Installed a system to detect cellphone signals coming out of the restricted housing unit
at Broad River, Lee, Lieber and McCormick.
● Installed full-body scanners similar to those at airports at all Level II Level III institutions.
● Creating structured living arrangements at Lee and other institutions where inmates
who work, take education classes and behave earn more incentives by where they are
housed. Some are character dorms, some are focused on education, others on jobs.
Programming:
● Founded the Academy of Hope at Lee, in which gang members and other influential
inmates live together and learn how to deescalate violence with words instead of
weapons. This program has seen real results, with an inmate saving an officer’s life and
inmates mediating disagreements in other dorms. An inmate trained at AOH saved an
officer’s life last year.
● Founded a Restoring Promise program in partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice at
Lee in which inmate mentors are trained to work with and help younger inmates. The
people in this program live in single cell dorms and earn other privileges as the program
progresses. SCDC also has this program at Turbeville and is hoping to expand to another
institution next year.
● Opened structured re-entry programs for all levels of inmates, including a two-year
program for maximum security inmates who have been incarcerated for many years.
These programs make sure inmates have work skills, a place to live, proper documents
and other essentials to build a new life and re-enter society.
NUMBERS:
Homicides:
2018: 9
2019: 8
2020: 2