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STERLING — An inmate who escaped from one of the most secure prisons in the state bypassed a lethal electric fence surrounding the prison by grounding himself and going under the fence.
“We had the stun-lethal fence, and there wasn’t an expectation that something like this could ever happen,” Department of Corrections head Ari Zavaras told 9News.
Douglas Alward escaped from the Sterling Correctional Facility on Aug. 22 and was found near a cornfield in Yuma County three days later after taking a woman hostage. She was released unharmed.
