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October 13, 2006
Iowa: Change in K-9 Policy
Prisons Change K-9 Policy
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October 13th, 2006 - Iowa's prisons are changing guidelines for using police dogs with uncooperative prisoners.
Until now, Iowa was one of five states to use police dogs when trying to get a prisoner out of his cell. The department of corrections says the dogs were only used when a prisoner would not cooperate.
But now there's a change in policy. It comes after the Human Rights Watch released a report called "Attack dogs used against prisoners."
The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a release saying that now "K-9's will only be used in cases of life threatening incidents."
The governor's office tells us Governor Vilsack agrees with the change.
Posted by lois at October 13, 2006 08:02 PM