NEW LEG SHACKLE HOLDS RUNAWAY PRISONERS (Sep, 1934)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1934
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1934
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NEW LEG SHACKLE HOLDS RUNAWAY PRISONERS
A new leg shackle that automatically disables a prisoner who tries to run is being tested by the U. S, Division of Investigation. Invented by a seventy-three-year-old Louisiana farmer, it consists of two hinged steel rods, bound to the thigh and lower leg by padded chains. As a prisoner bends his knee sharply in attempting to run a ratchet mechanism in the hinge automatically locks, preventing him from again straightening the leg.
