HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- Maryland's prison agency has a new system for alerting people to jailbreaks.
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services scheduled a demonstration Wednesday at the medium-security prison complex near Hagerstown.
Spokesman Mark Vernarelli says it will allow people in different regions of the state to sign up for alerts.
Vernarelli said earlier this month that the system involves several forms of communication.
A telephone notification system is already in use at a prison on the Eastern Shore. The department decided to enhance a siren alert system at the Hagerstown complex after a convicted murderer escaped in January from the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown and eluded capture for five days.
In September, two inmates walked away while painting fences at the nearby Maryland Correctional Training Center.
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