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Bryan Stirling

@BryanStirling

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Director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections @scdcnews

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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
Just saw a @UofSC police officer drop off food to a person in need #actofkindness
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Bryan Stirling
5 years
The only way to eliminate the public-safety threat from contraband phones in prisons is to disable cell signals and render the devices completely useless, writes SC US Attorney Sherri A. Lydon ⁦ @ASCALeadership ⁩ ⁦ @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
If you are missing a drone and some contraband at Lee CI please call @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
Thank you to all Correctional officers & other staff keeping us safe today & their families for their sacrifices @SCDCNews @ASCALeadership
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Bryan Stirling
8 months
@fema where have you been?!!!! Can you do the “alert test” daily to help us find all the contraband phones @SCDCNews ?!!!
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Bryan Stirling
6 years
Thanking those keeping us safe this Christmas Eve #candycanes @SCDCNews @ASCALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
5 years
Bad day for someone expecting a contraband drone delivery! ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ ⁦ @ASCALeadership #letprisonsblock #publicsaftey
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
SC inmates making masks, helping during COVID-19 pandemic. Proud the folks for stepping up and helping those in need of these potentially life saving PPE’s
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
CAPTURED Back in custody @SCDCNews
@SCDCNews
S.C. Department of Corrections
6 years
ESCAPED INMATE: Brent Tyson Austin stole and is believed to be traveling in a 2000 Dodge Dakota, GWT404 Tag.
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Bryan Stirling
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Thanking those keeping us safe tonight and who are spending part of Thanksgiving away from their families. @SCDCNews #wearecorrections
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
Thank you @SCDEWinfo for the collaboration!!
@AmbNikkiHaley
Archive: Ambassador Nikki Haley
6 years
There are many things our administration did when I was Governor that I am proud of. This is definitely one that warms my heart. I love seeing stories like this. ❤️ @BryanStirling
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
As we sit down for Thanksgiving Supper please remember those no longer here that would be sitting in that empty chair at the table and also be thankful for Correctional Officers & other staff that are at work today, away from their families, keeping us safe. @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
10 months
Prison and public safety!! ⬇️ Over a decade of work by a lot of folks!!
@BlairSabolTV
Blair Sabol-Live 5 News
10 months
NEW: @SCDCNews reports 320 contraband phones are shut off at Lee Correctional following the launch of a new program & a subsequent increase of inmates using the prison phone system. Director @BryanStirling celebrates this early success & hope to expand across the state, soon.
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Bryan Stirling
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Thankful for all the Correctional Officers in SC and around the US working to keep us safe this Thanksgiving @SCDCNews @ASCALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
1 year
Thank you @TGowdySC for having me on your show tonight to discuss contraband cell phones in our state prisons and their threat to public safety. @SCDCNews @CLALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
Thank you @ColaFire for the lift! And thank you @rileyinstitute for the recordable book partnership for A Mother’s Voice
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S.C. Department of Corrections
4 years
Santa made a surprise visit today at Manning’s Family Day and brought books and gifts for the children of the incarcerated men #HappyHolidays 🎄🎄🎁🎁 @BryanStirling @staley_nena @CLALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
1 year
Great front gate intercept of a lot of contraband by CERT team at Broad River CI today. Always disappointing to see staff involved criminal activity. @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
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This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for all the staff, correctional and other law enforcement officers that are keeping us safe today and every other day of the year!! @CLALeadership @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
7 years
Thanking those keeping SC safe tonight @ MacDougal CI @SCDCNews @ASCALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
Please consider giving folks a second chance, if you want to see what they’ve accomplished(jobs, education, etc) here is a link: Released Offender Skills ⁦ @staley_nena ⁩ ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ ⁦ @CLALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
5 months
Enjoyed talking today with retired NBA Star AC Green and others about post release housing in SC. @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
Netting going up to help combat illegal contraband throw overs at SCDC prisons @ASCALeadership @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
Medical staff at Kershaw CI saved an inmate’s life today by administering Narcan after what would have been a fatal drug overdose. Many thanks to @scdaodas for our partnership and supplying us with this life-saving treatment. #TellOurStory @CLALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thank you very much! @SCDCNews
@CLALeadership
Correctional Leaders Assn
2 years
Congrats to SC DOC Director @BryanStirling for being awarded the Tom Clements Innovation & Achievement award. Well deserved. #CLAWinter2022
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Bryan Stirling
1 year
If you’ve cleaned out your closet over the holidays & are looking for a place to donate them, please consider donating to @SCDCNews . The men and women leaving prison need all sorts of clothes including interview suits/shoes along with causal/work clothes & also coats. Thank you!
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
3 years
Excited to start our video visitation pilot at a few institutions! (Note: this will not replace in person visits but will be an additional option for family visits) @SCDCNews #85 /5/U
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Bryan Stirling
7 years
Thanking those that keep us safe at night and celebrating #NationalHotFudgeSundaeDay @SCDCNews @ASCALeadership
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
3 years
This is NOT an April Fool’s joke!
@SCDCNews
S.C. Department of Corrections
3 years
SC man arrested after trying to break INTO prison. Yes, you read that right. Details:
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
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Bryan Stirling: Reentry, jobs program helps SC offenders start new life | Commentary | ⁦⁦ @staley_nena ⁩ ⁦ @ASCALeadership ⁩ TY to the folks ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ for making this happen across our agency! #85 /5/U
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
5 years
Thank you to all those COs and other staff @SCDCNews working this Fourth of July!! We appreciate you!! @ASCALeadership
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Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thank you @TomCottonAR & @CLALeadership for setting up a panel discussion on Capitol Hill today regarding contraband cell phones in our nations prisons and the need for legislation to allow states to jam. @IDOC_Illinois @CACorrections
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
5 months
More evidence the ⁦ @FCC ⁩ order denying service to contraband phones is working at Lee CI. Video discovered on another contraband phone seized during a dorm search. ⁦ @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
1 year
Capital Hill today with fellow @CLALeadership members talking cell phones, drones and prison/public safety. @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
5 months
Ongoing targeted searches at Broad River CI by ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ Cert Team, DOS Search Team, IG and other SCDC personal
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
5 years
Thank you to the COs, medical staff and others that reported to work and stayed at our facilities for the last few day and nights to make sure our institutions were safe during #HurricaneDorain ! @ASCALeadership @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
6 years
Thanking those keeping us safe tonight at the Broad River Complex Institutions #icecrean @ASCALeadership @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
During this unprecedented time @SCDCNews is still making sure the offenders are receiving an education #85 /5/U
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
1 year
Prosecutors to Congress: Let state prisons jam cellphones. It’s past time for Congress to act, thank you to the AGs that signed the letter & to ⁦ @AGAlanWilson ⁩ for leading this effort calling on Congress to act on this public safety matter
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
1 year
Thank you @KevinPWalling for your comments!
@alexstroman
Ale𝕏 Stroman
1 year
Did you know that South Carolina has the lowest recidivism rate in the country (meaning 80% of inmates do not return to prison within three years of their release)? @KevinPWalling highlighted the efforts of @SCDCNews AND @BryanStirling today on @OutnumberedFNC
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thank you!
@henrymcmaster
Gov. Henry McMaster
2 years
Director Stirling has applied his innovative leadership towards improving the Department of Corrections and it has paid off with the lowest recidivism rate in the country. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition, Director.
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Nine folks graduated from NE Tech at Evans CI yesterday with trade certificates. We know that education/training certification leads to lower recidivism rates. @SCDCNews #publicsafety
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
Thank you @henrymcmaster and SC Legislature for the $1000($5 million) raise for our COs in this years budget!
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
11 months
Big announcement soon with some exciting news from ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ and it’s partners! ⁦ @henrymcmaster
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Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thankful and thanking the folks working @SCDCNews on Thanksgiving! They keep us safe!
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
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Then: came on shift as a @SCDCNews Correctional Officer and found meth, marijuana and tobacco on him. And now: left Tyger River CI with new bracelets.
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
Said goodbye to one of our Lts/Unit Managers today. Taken too soon. She always greeted with a smile & hug. A lot of SCDC in uniform to lift up & comfort her family & each other. She was respected by both fellow officers & those she was trying to help do better. #curecancer
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Bryan Stirling
3 years
Thankful for all the Corrections Officers and others working at SCDC and around the country today! @SCDCNews @CLALeadership
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Bryan Stirling
10 months
Enjoyed speaking to the @ColaRotary ab the dangers of contraband cell phones & drones and how @SCDCNews is one of the nations leaders in combatting these threats.
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Bryan Stirling
1 year
Looks like coal in the stockings instead of contraband for some at McCormick CI thanks to the teamwork by the McCormick County Sheriff’s Dept and the @SCDCNews drone team. Great work! One in custody.
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Bryan Stirling
3 years
The new classification system has allowed 30 plus folks, that qualified, to transfer from McCormick CI (Close/Max Custody) to Tyger River CI (Medium Custody) for paying jobs at the flooring plant. More of this happening soon across @SCDCNews #85 /5/U
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Bryan Stirling
8 years
36 pallets of sandbags loaded @ Wateree Correctional tonight & headed to @scflorencecity @SCEMD @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
2 years
Excited to talk to a class of over 60 new ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ officers today! One of the largest training classes in a while!! Thank you ⁦ @henrymcmaster ⁩ ⁦ @murrellsmith ⁩ ⁦ @senshanemartin ⁩ & the all members of the SC GA. Doesn’t happen without their support!
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Bryan Stirling
5 years
Thank you ⁦ @garyclarysc ⁩ and other oversight members for #VisitAPrison over the last few weeks and checking things out as learning ab ⁦ @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Excited for the women at Camille that will be graduating from our first @Perseverenow coding class tomorrow!! @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thank you @SenatorShealy for the donation of clothes to the @SCDCNews prison reentry clothing closets!
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
⁦Thank you! ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ ⁦ @CLALeadership
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Bryan Stirling
5 years
Thank you ⁦ @SC_DMV ⁩ for partnering with ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ today to help folks leaving prisons obtain proper ids before they leave tomorrow #85 /5/U
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
Cleaning out your closet for the New Year? Please consider donating your clothes to one of @SCDCNews Rentey Centers for returning citizens. @staley_nena
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Bryan Stirling
10 months
An newly hired(July) and now newly fired(today) employee at Turbeville CI, tried a unique way to get contraband into that prison today. Front gate found a cell phone, a charger and tobacco taped up inside a cake. @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thank you to the Lee County Sheriffs Office for busting two separate groups trying to fly (via drones) contraband into Lee Max CI this evening at the exact same time!! @SCDCNews @scsheriffsassoc
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
10 months
Great presentation to @CLALeadership by @SCDCNews Victim Services Team ab supporting correctional staff after prison incidents! Flossy was a hit!
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
1 year
Thank you to the ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩ staff transporting volunteers to the ⁦ @WreathsAcross ⁩ event at Fort Jackson National Cemetery today! #wearecorrections
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
3 years
When the guy you met, in the dorm, the first day of college and then you appoint to the Palmetto Unified School Board becomes Chairman and takes over for one of your other appointments! Thank you both for your service to @SCDCNews !!!
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S.C. Department of Corrections
3 years
Palmetto Unified School District:   SCDC thanks outgoing board chairman Jay Ragley for his service and welcomes incoming chairman Mike Sumter.
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Bryan Stirling
3 years
Thank you @TomCottonAR !!! If the federal prison system can legally jam illegal cell phones, why can't the US state prison systems legally jam?!!! @CTIA @sprint @ATT @TMobile @Verizon @Cricketnation #publicsafety @SCDCNews @CLALeadership
@SenTomCotton
Tom Cotton
3 years
Inmates shouldn’t be able to commit crimes from inside their prison cells, but contraband cellphones allow them to do just that. My bill will allow state and federal prisons to use cellphone jamming technology to stop them.
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Bryan Stirling
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This Father’s Day please consider getting involved in “A Parents’s Voice” & help children with incarcerated parents ⁦ @Riley_Institute ⁩ ⁦ @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
Happy Mother’s Day to all the @SCDCNews officers, medical staff and others reporting for duty today!
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Bryan Stirling
6 years
Christmas Mass with the Bishop at Kirkland Correctional Institution @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
5 years
Judge William Byars was a great man, his legacy for helping the youth of South Carolina will be measured not in years but in generations @SCDCNews
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
6 years
Thank you Secretary Riley for being there today to see first hand just one the many @Riley_Institute projects/work in SC
@SCDCNews
S.C. Department of Corrections
6 years
Kirkland CI held the second “Father’s Voice” program today. The inmates record themselves reading children’s books which are then sent home to their children. Former SC GOV Dick Riley of the @Riley_Institute was the special guest for today’s program
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
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@SCDCNews now offers backpacks to inmates to carry their personal property when leaving prison. Previously inmates were given nylon laundry bags. This has been a longtime goal. We accept new or used backpacks, too! Call (803) 896-1235 for info.
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Bryan Stirling
1 year
Proud of my friend ⁦ @RobGodfrey ⁩ on ⁦ @CNN ⁩!
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Bryan Stirling
3 years
Enjoyed hearing @damonwest7 talk to folks @SCDCNews & others about “Be the Coffee Bean” and how to change and help others do the same.
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
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He had a real impact on many people’s lives!
@SCDCNews
S.C. Department of Corrections
6 months
Our condolences to the family of former SCDC Director Parker Evatt, who led the agency from 1987-1995.
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Bryan Stirling
3 years
Thankful for all the folks working @SCDCNews @CLALeadership & other LE/First Responders keeping us safe this Christmas!
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
Great find by our officers!
@SCDCNews
S.C. Department of Corrections
4 years
What we found: 32 smart phones, more than 27 pounds of tobacco, more than 5 pounds of marijuana, 33 chargers, 31 USB plugs, 17 sets of Bluetooth earbuds, 47 lighters, a half-gallon of brown liquor and other assorted items of contraband. 2/2
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
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Thank you @garyclarysc @MicahCaskey for visiting Kirkland CI yesterday to learn ab the R&E process & also see first hand the challenges prisons face with staffing & delivering medical/mental health services. #85 /5/U @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
2 years
Enjoyed talking to a criminal justice class ⁦ @winthropu ⁩ this evening ⁦ @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
1 year
First day this year it feels like Summer in SC. If you have any winter coats, gloves or scarves you want to donate please consider @scdc clothing closets for folks returning home from prison. We will hold until next Fall/Winter. DM @SCDCNews to found out how.
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
2 years
Quite a find by the contraband team at Lieber CI this AM @SCDCNews Found in an inmate’s cell marijuana, meth and ecstasy along with other contraband. Delivery via drone. SCDC Special Agents investigating.
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@BryanStirling
Bryan Stirling
4 years
Excited to be starting coding classes, soon, for the folks here at @SCDCNews @staley_nena #85 /5/U
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
Thank you to all the veterans and to those working at @SCDCNews !!
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Bryan Stirling
6 years
TY @henrymcmaster & SC leg for $1.7 million expanding Manning CI’s reentry services to all @SCDCNews level 2 & 3 prisons, 800 or so folks will renter society over the next week consider donating clothes for interviews & reentry Goodman(Cola) CI clothes closet has a need right now
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Bryan Stirling
2 years
Thank you Lee County Sheriff’s Office for intercepting not 1 but 2 drone contraband delivery teams outside Lee Max CI today!!! @SCDCNews
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Bryan Stirling
9 months
Enjoy talking to a class @winthropu tonight about @SCDCNews @GarySimrill
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Bryan Stirling
1 year
Thank you @OJPNIJ for asking me to be on a panel with national experts on drones and security. @SCDCNews @CLALeadership
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Bryan Stirling
3 months
Thanking the night shift at Lieber CI!
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Bryan Stirling
4 years
Thankful for all the folks working on Easter @SCDCNews @CLALeadership
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Bryan Stirling
5 years
NICU nurses, staff and doctors are truly blessings!
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Bryan Stirling
3 years
@staley_nena
Nena Staley
3 years
This is it, Today is my last day ⁦ @SCDCNews ⁩! Retirement after over 34 years! A Happy/Sad day, but so thankful that I will continue to work in Reentry Nationally! Farewell! Love & will miss you! Thanks ⁦ @BryanStirling ⁩ ⁦ @dawnstaley ⁩ ⁦⁦ @dfreeman_RHI
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Bryan Stirling
3 months
Thank you!!
@SCDCNews
S.C. Department of Corrections
3 months
Baptist churches across SC collected toiletries for inmates as gifts for #Easter , and the items were packaged today by inmates, staff and volunteers. SCDC inmates will receive these gifts, along with a message of #hope , tomorrow. #WeAreCorrections 🙏🏼
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