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| Lock Failure At Boise's Maximum Security Prison |
| By KBCI |
| Published: 01/13/2003 |
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There are 552 inmates at Idaho's Maximum security prison and there is a growing concern that electronically controlled doors that keep them locked in are failing. It happened recently in one of the maximum security tiers as a shift commander Sgt. Rodney Schlienz was making his way through the tier. 'I noticed the cell doors on tier one of B-block were opening. I looked up at the control center and the control center officer is going like this...I am not pushing any buttons, I am not opening any doors.' It is a problem that is also happening at the Idaho Correctional Institute in Orofino. Both institutions use the same 1989 designed system to open and lock cell doors. According to the Idaho Department of Correction that means a total 952 inmates are being held in a facilities where the locking mechanisms keeping them in their cells have been failing. The failures include what the department terms 8 'serious incidents' over the last 6 months, and at least 2 power failures within the electronic circuitry that runs the system occurring each week. Teresa Jones, spokeswoman for the Idaho Department of Correction says the problems are serious. 'It is a possibility that inmates could be at danger, our professional staff could be at danger. It is a very critical situation.' Corrections officials are asking for an immediate $3 million dollars to fix the problem to make sure some of the state's most dangerous inmates stay in their cells. |
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