Reviewed on: February 22,2018
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How do you find out if phone lines / power outages at a facility? Lompoc, Ca

There are no phone or power outages in ANY federal prison.
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✓ Verified answer February 15,2018 · General Prison Questions-Terminology
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There are no phone or power outages in ANY federal prison. They maintain their own power source if that were to happen to the electricity grid. There are many safeguards to protect the public from a federal prison losing power... all the gates, the cells, the pods are on electrical controls - they can't have an outage of any kind.

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