From Plexiglas and Lexan to paper clips and window hinges, inmates use whatever they can get their hands on to concoct potentially deadly weapons.
In every toilet bowl, sink, footlocker, soda bottle, toothbrush and typewriter at MCI-Cedar Junction, maximum security inmates see a lethal device they can concoct during their endless idle hours. “They grab what they can, whenever they can and make a weapon of it,” said Lt. Jeffrey Padula, a member of the prison’s Inner Perimeter Security unit. Among the weapons corrections officers have confiscated:
A hatchet made of metal torn from a sink in 9 Block. Padula said the weapon was confiscated after the inmate hit a fence with it at recreation time. Rolled plastic formed from empty 16- and 20-ounce soda bottles inmates buy at weekly canteen. Padula said inmates cut the bottle, roll it tightly and use an electrical heat source to melt and sharpen it. The weapon is popular because it can slip through metal detectors unnoticed. Makeshift shanks and knives cut from footlocker doors, sinks, bed legs and food carts. Padula said inmates conceal the missing metal and steel carved from furniture by filling in the holes with cardboard cutouts that they paint to match. Toothbrushes with their bristles torn off. The remaining plastic is sharpened to a point. Tattoo needles made from paper clips.
That is why I have allot of respect for the un armed corrections officers, (NOT GUARDS), who walk the tiers and the flats.
And no, I am not singing to the quire. This is the side of law enforcement the public very seldom see. And just like there brothers and sisters who work the streets, only here negative stories from the mostly, (not all), press.
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