They likely wouldn’t have spent all that time in solitary confinement anyway. As a result of such long sentences, the South Carolina Department of Corrections has been forced to suspend punishments due to a lack of solitary confinement cells.
Just last week, the state began to roll back its use of solitary confinement as punishment for social media use. It will eventually cap time alone at 60 days — and inmates can be let out early with good behavior.
South Carolina Corrections Department Director Bryan P. Stirling said he’s dialing back, because he recognizes the severity of the punishment. He asserts that inmates don’t deserve social media access. And even if they did, officers have too few resources to monitor Facebook usage to make sure inmates aren’t stirring up trouble. So, he must equate unmonitored social media use via contraband cell phones as a potential threat to people’s safety.
“Any hole in the system — and social media is a hole into the system — is a way for them to continue their criminal ways,” he said. “There needs to be a punishment that’s worse than, ‘No candy for you today,’ or, ‘You won’t see your mother.’ There has to be something more severe than that.”
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