Keys to Iowa prison auctioned on e-Bay
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ANAMOSA, Iowa, May 3 Iowa is spending $6,000 to change the locks at one of its state prisons after a set of keys belonging to a long-retired guard turned up on e-Bay.Jerry Burden, warden of the Anamosa State Penitentiary, told KCCI-TV in Des Moines, that he does not know if any of the keys actually open any of the locks in the 135-year-old prison -- but he is not sure they don't. The prison houses a number of violent criminals."It certainly is technologically behind the times, but many of the old technologies still work remarkably well," Burt said. The keys belonged to a guard who retired in the 1970s. After his death, someone put them up for sale on the auction Web site, advertising them as keys that once opened doors at the prison.This week, someone paid $12 for them.Copyright 2007 by UPI
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