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Open Prison Barracks Unsafe
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 7
In the past fifteen years of massive prison expansion many prison systems have opted to build open dormitory type prison barracks because they are substantially cheaper to build than conventional cell blocks. There are inherent shortcomings in this type of prison design. The Connecticut DOC recently discovered it can't "lock …
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