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| Cell doors left unlocked twice at Ark. prison |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 01/30/2004 |
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For the second time since December, cell doors at the Arkansas prison housing the state's death row inmates were accidentally unlocked, prison officials said on Thursday. No one left their cells when an officer unlocked 26 doors on death row at Varner prison, about 110 km southeast of Little Rock, for three minutes on Wednesday. "They (the prisoners) sat there. They didn't move. But the death row inmates are the best behaved inmates in prison," said Dina Tyler, spokeswoman for the Arkansas prison system. In December, an electrical fault opened all doors in a cellblock housing violent prisoners such as murderers and rapists. Dozens of inmates ventured into a corridor and one of them was killed. An inmate is expected to be charged with the killing within days, Tyler said. The officer responsible for the latest death row incident has been fired |
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