Prisons

Jun. 06, 1966 - The Jail where prisoners don't even try to Escape: From the outside, it looks like new block of flats, or a skyscraper hotel, with well-tended gardens and just a hint of luxury. But the front gate gives the game away. Twenty five tons of steel that announce this is Stuttgart's Stanheim Jail. Inside, the director says confidently Even James Bond could not escape from here'. Certainly Stanheim makes many British prisons loo an out-dated as the stocks, for it was built with all the skill of a nation which has had plenty of experience is looking people up. Television cameras constantly cover the outer walls, and electric buzzers connect the warders with each cell. And no one could escape from the exercise yard as it is on the roof - 180 feet up. The 25-feet high concrete walls are surrounded by an electro-magnetic field which automatically sets off an alarm bell if anybody gets within a yard. At the dame time TV camers in the prison grounds automatically film the scene over a closed circuit to a screen in a central control room. The prison holds 650 men and 150 women. More than 50, 000 prisoners have passed through Stannheim since it was completed in 1963 at a cost of £2-million. Photo shows the warder in a glass cage in the centre of a cell block on each floor answers telephone calls from the cells at Stanheim Jail in Stuttgart

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