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| Electric Fence Couldn't Stop Escaping Inmate |
| By 9news.com |
| Published: 09/10/2010 |
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STERLING - An inmate who escaped from one of the most secure prisons in the state bypassed a lethal electric fence surrounding the prison by grounding himself and going under the fence, 9Wants to Know has learned. "We had the stun-lethal fence and there wasn't an expectation that something like this could ever happen," Department of Corrections head Ari Zavaras told 9Wants to Know. Douglas Alward escaped from the Sterling Correctional Facility on Aug. 22 and was found near a cornfield in Yuma County three days later after taking a woman hostage. Alward, who escaped from state prisons twice before and a county courthouse once, was serving a 20- to 40-year prison sentence for convictions of attempted murder, assault, burglary and kidnapping. Read More. |
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