Prisons

Jun. 13, 1966 - The Jail where prisoners don't even try to escape.: From the outside, it looks like a new block of flats, or a skyscraper hotel, with well-sanded gardens and just a hint of luxury. But the front gate gives the game away. Twenty-five toils of steel that announce this is Stuttgart's Stanheim Jail. Inside, the director says confidently Even James Bond could not escape from here Certainly Stannheim makes many British prisons look as out-dated as the stocks, for it was built with all the skill of a nation which has had plenty of experiences in 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 sorrounded by an electromagnetic field which automatically sets off an alarm bell if anybody gets within a yard. At the same time TV cameras in the prison grounds automatically film the scene over a closed circuit to a person 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 control desk in the alarm room at Stannheim Jail in Stuttgart

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