Robert Johnson (prison officer)

Robert Johnson (born 1953) is a retired South Carolina Department of Corrections Captain and United States Air Force veteran.[2][3][4] He was a guard at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina, where he oversaw efforts to stop contraband cellphones and drugs.[5]

Robert Johnson
Born1953 (age 66–67)
Delray Beach, Florida[1]
NationalityAmerican
OccupationConsultant

Lee Correctional Institution incident

On the morning of March 5, 2010, Johnson was the victim of a hit orchestrated by criminals within Lee Correctional Institution. That morning, a gunman broke into Johnson's home and shot him six times with a .38 caliber revolver in the stomach and chest before leaving him for dead. Johnson's wife, Mary, was home but uninjured.[4]

Johnson was targeted by prisoners at the facility as retaliation for stopping contraband items such as drugs and cell phones from entering the prison.[6][7] Following the shooting, Johnson began advocating for cell phone blocking technology in prisons around the country.[8] In 2014, Sean Echols was charged for his role in the attempted murder.[4]

Advocacy

In 2017, Johnson testified before the Federal Communications Commission prior to their vote approving the streamlining of processes required use technology to block and detect contraband phones in prisons.[9]

gollark: It would also not be very useful for spying on people, since they would just stop saying things if they got a notification saying "interception agent has been added to the chat" and it wouldn't work retroactively.
gollark: One proposal for backdooring encrypted messaging stuff was to have a way to remotely add extra participants invisibly to an E2Ed conversation. If you have that but without the "invisible" bit, that would work as "encryption with a backdoor, but then make it very obvious that the backdoor has been used" somewhat.
gollark: Not encryption itself, probably.
gollark: They don't seem to want to *ban* end-to-end encryption as much as backdoor the popularly used stuff. Which is still bad. I should finish writing that blog post on it some time this decade.
gollark: It's probably with consent to the extent that *any* social media apps do, i.e. "the long incomprehensible privacy policy says we can".

References
  1. Shepard, Willard. "Ex-Corrections Officer Works to Disconnect Inmates' Cell Phones". NBC Miami.
  2. Dubensky, Bill. "South Carolina Correctional Officer Pushes for Technology to Jam Cell Signals From Prisons". South Carolina Radio Network.
  3. Thomas, Pierre; Krolowitz, Ben. "Calling UP Hits: Cell Phones Used Behind Bars".
  4. Monk, John. "Federal Judge Gives Would-Be Assassin 20 Years in Plot to Kill S.C. Prison Guard Captain". The State.
  5. Barr, Jody. "Former Officer Survives "Hit", Takes Story to Washington". WISTV 10.
  6. "Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Murder-for-Hire in Shooting of Correctional Officer". The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  7. Smith, Glenn. "Shooting Victime Reaches Milestone Ex-Corrections Captain Attends Arraignment in Murder Plot Case". The Post and Courier.
  8. Brown, Angela. "Former Corrections Officer Shot 6 Times Now Working to Stop Prisoners Using Cell Phones". ABC News 4 Charleston.
  9. Kinnard, Meg. "FCC Approves Measures Intended to Combat Prison Cellphones". U.S. News.
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