Inmates assigned to maximum security facilities are considered the most desperate individuals and are deemed extremely dangerous to each other, to prison personnel, and to society at large. These prisoners must be controlled with extra surveillance. Any reasonable means must be used to prevent these prisoners from escaping.Corrections Officer Urinyi, standing guard at 4 a.m. in a watch tower at the corner of the prison compound, senses activity below. Looking down, Officer Urinyi sees that two inmates have tunneled beneath the wall and are inching their way on their bellies towards the woods beyond the open space. Officer Urinyi recognizes the inmates as Hammer and Gruber. She takes careful aim and shoots first the forward escapee and then the one closer to the prison walls. Officer Urinyi then sounds a general alarm. This action by Corrections Officer Urinyi is

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Inmates assigned to maximum security facilities are considered the most desperate individuals and are deemed extremely dangerous to each other, to prison personnel, and to society at large. These prisoners must be controlled with extra surveillance. Any reasonable means must be used to prevent these prisoners from escaping.<br>Corrections Officer Urinyi, standing guard at 4 a.m. in a watch tower at the corner of the prison compound, senses activity below. Looking down, Officer Urinyi sees that two inmates have tunneled beneath the wall and are inching their way on their bellies towards the woods beyond the open space. Officer Urinyi recognizes the inmates as Hammer and Gruber. She takes careful aim and shoots first the forward escapee and then the one closer to the prison walls. Officer Urinyi then sounds a general alarm. This action by Corrections Officer Urinyi is