Inmates graduate from substance abuse program | News

A  total of 17 inmates at the Lexington County Detention Center graduated at 1 p.m. on Friday, December 21 from an eight-week alcohol and drug treatment program that LRADAC/The Behavioral Health Center of the Midlands administers at the Detention Center.

Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said the Sheriff’s Department conducted a graduation ceremony for the 17 inmates at a courtroom that is adjacent to the front entrance of the Detention Center at the Lexington County James R. Metts Law Enforcement Complex, 521 Gibson Road, Lexington.

During the LRADAC program, a clinical addictions counselor met for one hour once per week with the 17 inmates, Metts said. The alcohol and drug treatment program is designed to help inmates confront and conquer addictive compulsive behaviors that could lead them to commit additional crimes after they are released from the Detention Center.

Inmates who participate in the alcohol and drug treatment program learn skills that will help them avoid situations in which their sobriety could be compromised after they are released from the Detention Center, Metts said. They also receive individual relapse prevention plans that will help them engage in healthy activities that do not include the use of alcohol or drugs.

Metts said the following 17 inmates successfully completed alcohol and drug treatment:

v  Juan Arroyo

v  Jefferson Monroe Beckett

v  Brian Christopher Bledsoe

v  Jenerick Keyote Brown

v  Tracy Chris Farmer

v  Travis Golston

v  Oscar Moreno-Mendez

v  Darrin Roy Powers, Jr.

v  David Wesley Russell

v  William Isom Satterwhite

v  Rudolph Raynard Scipio

v  Frank Lemual Shealy

v  Michael Robinson Smith

v  Gerald Lee Wyers, Jr.