SECURITY TIGHTER
Prison Work In Auckland (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 9. An endless roll of looped barbed wire topping the 20ft southern wall of Auckland Prison is the latest security measure in a “tightening-up” that has gone on for a year or more. Ministry of Works men are installing the wire on all four walls. The wire is especially tough and embodies a three-way deterrent to anyone trying to go over or through it. But details of its secrets are being withheld, “for obvious reasons,” said a prison spokesman today. In the prison, new locks have been fitted. Some old wooden cell doors, such as the one the escaper George Wilder cut through, have been replaced by others in sheet steel. Several main grilles have had steel plate fitted to them so that the locks cannot be tampered with. Other measures are secret. A brick two-storey house nearby is being converted for a women’s prison. When this is completed a security unit for women will be built on the present women’s block.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30542, 10 September 1964, Page 14
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