Prison gadgets

Being in prison, you will come across some of the craziest homemade gadgets that you’d never in a million years think of making or could make.

A lot of things I’ve never seen, but heard plenty of stories about. But some of the things I have seen are:

- Tattoo guns made out of electric razors and other electronic devices

- Ashtrays made with bars of soap

- A thing which people use to cut hair – made out of a comb and razor (people do that so they don’t have to get all their hair cut off at the barber)

- Fishing line which is a long piece of string with a weight attached to the end and it’s used to slide normal contraband from one cell to another.

- Speakers – which is really just a cone made out of paper with radio headphone inside (the cone amplifies the sound).

People also light cigarettes off the overhead light in their cell or from two batteries, a lock and a razor blade.

I’ve seen chess pieces made out of paper mache, and the last thing I’ve seen is a screwdriver made out of rubber cement and something else. There’s probably more I can’t think of!

For more prison inventions, check out WebUrbanist.