By Eric Berman
7/5/2009
The Miami and Branchville state prisons plan to install a new high-tech security fence.
By October, construction should be complete at Branchville on an electronic stun barrier. The New Castle and Westville prisons already use it.
Department of Correction spokesman Doug Garrison says the barrier is designed to both deter and detect escape attempts. Just approaching the barrier sets off an audible alarm to attract guards.
"If they would touch the fence, that would be the deterrent side, because it would knock them off the fence," Garrison says.
Garrison says the barriers won't be installed at Indiana's two maximum-security prisons, where 30-foot walls are considered protection enough.
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