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SC prison director Bryan Stirling will become interim U.S. Attorney for South Carolina.
Longtime S.C. Department of Corrections director Bryan Stirling will become interim U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, according to multiple sources.
Stirling, 55, will start his new job on Monday, replacing former U.S. Attorney Adair Boroughs, who left earlier this year, and current interim U.S. Attorney Brook Andrews, sources said. .
Sometime next week, Stirling is expected to be formally nominated for permanent U.S. attorney, sources said.
As interim U.S. attorney, Stirling will oversee an office of federal prosecutors and other attorneys in offices in Columbia and around the state who work with federal agencies such as the FBI, DEA and others who investigate federal crimes. Its attorneys also represent the federal government in civil litigation.
It will be quite a change.
As the state prison director, Stirling is the top executive in a far-flung state prison system of 21 institutions with 5,000 employees and 16,500 inmates including 25 people on death row in South Carolina, as well as one man on California’s death row sentenced to death in both states.
In recent years, he has dealt with one of the largest riots in recent U.S. history, correction officer corruption, re-instating executions including by firing squad and longstanding problems with drone infiltration and contraband cell phones,
Stirling was nominated for the prison job in 2014, confirmed by the state senate and has been at Corrections ever since.
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