Volume 23
May 2018 Edition
Detecting Contraband Cell Phones
to Save Lives & Safeguard Facilities
Cellbusters Zone Protector™ – Detect Cell In a speech to the Upstate Chamber of Coalition, Mc-
Phones & Hidden Transmission Devices. Master said illegal cellphones have added a “whole
new dimension” to the dangers inherently found
In April, seven inmates were killed and at least 20 in correctional facilities, following echoed warnings
hurt during a violent riot involving rival gangs that that prison officials in South Carolina and across the
began Sunday night at the South Carolina’s largest nation have voiced for years.
maximum-security prison, authorities said.
“What is happening these days is people are going to the
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said on Tuesday, fences and they are throwing cellphones over the fence,”
that contraband cellphones had a “big impact” on Sun- said McMaster, who signed an executive order earlier this
year directing the South Carolina State Guard to patrol the
day’s violence which quickly spread to three uncon-
perimeters of prison facilities.
nected dormitories at the prison.
(7 Dead in violent riot at Lee Correctional Institution)
Gov. Henry McMaster
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