Lewis prison lock issues were known to officials for more than a decad

Security officials at Arizona’s Lewis prison first identified problems with inmates defeating the cell door locking system at least 13 years ago, according to internal security documents and video obtained by ABC15.

In the first sentence of a 2006 security alert, it clearly outlines the emerging problem inside one of the prison’s units.

By: Dave Biscobing

The memo was written on August 21, 2006. One of the prison’s chiefs of security also created a corresponding video to demonstrate how inmates were “defeating” the cell door locking system.“Inmates have been compromising the security of our cell doors and are able to open them at will.”

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