Seven high-security federal prisons will be getting fences that can kill prisoners who touch them. The $10 million project is designed to allow prisons to operate with fewer perimeter guards. Unlike some lethal-only electric fences in use, the 12-foot-high “stun-lethal” fences can be set to deliver electrical shocks to prisoners who touch them once and fatal shocks if they are touched a second time.

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