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(IsraelNN.com) A new technology is enabling Israeli prison guards to better interpret the warnings given by their dogs, by distinguishing barks given as warnings from normal barks. According to a prisons official, the custom-built computer program enables jailers to better identify abnormal events, such as a struggle or a breakout.

The program aims to reduce incidents in which guards fail to react to the barks of their dogs, either because they don’t hear them or because they fail to recognize the cause of the barking quickly enough, according to Noam Tavor, head of the Israel Prisons Service canine unit. The Prisons Service hopes that this technology will lessen the chances of a successful prison break.