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Prison, university, dam seek bonding money
By sctimes.com- Kirsti Marohn
Published: 08/12/2015

Capt. Dean Weis places his hands in the cracks of the massive granite wall that surrounds the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud to show how an offender could use them to climb to freedom.

The 93-year-old structure that surrounds the prison is a historical marvel, the longest continuous granite wall built with inmate labor, second only to the Great Wall of China. But it's starting to show its age.

The Department of Corrections says the wall needs tuckpointing — a lot of it — to replace the original mortar and repair the cracks that are forming.

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