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California DOC Starts Use of Electric Fence
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1994, page 4
On November 8, 1993, guards threw the switch on an electric fence surrounding the maximum security prison at Calipatria, CA. The $1.5 million fence stands 13 feet high, erected in a no man's land between two 12 foot fences topped with razor wire so that no one touches it accidentally. …
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