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ID: Bull Connor's ghost sighted south of Boise

From the AP:Mean dogs stand guard at Idaho prisonNobody has broken out of the Idaho State Correctional Institution in more than 20 years. Prison officials like to think a hard-bitten corps of sentries with names like Cookie, Bongo and Chi Chi has had something to do with that. The institution is the only state prison in the U.S. to use snarling, snapping sentry dogs to patrol its perimeter...24 mean dogs ? mostly German shepherds, rottweilers and Belgian malinois, with a few boxers and pit bulls ? roam the space between the inner and outer chain-link fences 24 hours a day, ferociously defending their territory...Dogs were once widely used as sentries in the U.S... The practice fell out of favor during the civil rights era as police dogs became associated with racist and repressive law enforcement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).