"The head of the state prison system said he’s willing to stake his career on the design for a proposed Southern Nevada prison that would be built without guard towers.
Fencing is more effective than towers,” prisons chief Howard Skolnik told the state Public Works Board on Tuesday. “Every escape has been the result of human error.”
The fences would be equipped with technology that would detect an inmate approaching or touching the barrier and alert guards, Skolnik said. The fences aren’t electrified; “they don’t kill,” he said.
The design, similar to that being used in other states, eliminates the human error that has led to every escape from a Nevada prison since Skolnik has been with the Corrections Department, he said."
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