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Iowa budget cuts enabled prison escape - senator
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Two convicted murderers were able to climb over a
wall and escape from an Iowa prison because budget
cuts left some guard towers unmanned, senator said.
Officials at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison
were unable to staff all of the prison's towers because
of a lack of state funding and were relying instead on
an electronic wire "that was supposed to take care of
all the security problems," said Eugene Fraise, who
represents the prison area. Another state lawmaker,
Republican Rep. Lance Horbach, later disagreed with
Fraise, however, saying the prison system received
more money in its budget than it asked for and the real
question was why the alert wire failed to do what it was
supposed to.
The two men escaped on Monday night by tossing a rope on the wall around the
facility, and police in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri were still hunting for them on
Tuesday.
Fraise told the Radio Iowa news network he never liked the wire idea because: "I
always thought that those towers ought to be manned. They were put there for a
reason, and that was security."
The prison on the banks of the Mississippi River was established in 1839 when Iowa
was still a territory, and it is the oldest prison west of that river
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