Hasta La Gadget!

As we already know, prisoners can be very inventive with all of that time they have on their hands. Now, it turns out that inmates at one prison have been using a very sly and clever way to sneak contraband tools and gadgets in – using a cat.

According to the Associated Press, guards at a medium-security prison in Brazil grew suspicious when they saw a cat sauntering around the prison grounds on New Years Eve. When the cat was captured, they found a cellphone, drills, small saws and other contraband taped to its body.

They don’t know which inmate(s) are responsible for the tom-cat-foolery, and they’ll probably never know for sure, since their cat conspirator isn’t saying a word. There’s no word on the status of the mischievous feline, who remains in the custody of animal control, but hopefully it will be put up for adoption.

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Here’s some bad news if you’re a con and you want to keep up with your friends on the outside: if somebody sends you printed-out Facebook pages, they’ll get confiscated. The confirmation comes via Mark Nixon’s appeal, which was rejected by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Mark Nixon, who is currently incarcerated in a medium-security prison in Pennsylvania, had accomplices send him printed Facebook pages. They were taken away, and he brought a civil rights case in Federal court. He lost, appealed, and then lost the appeal. (more…)

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Almost everything can be turned into a weapon. I think that much is clear if you’ve seen footage of prison brawls, where anything from spoons to toothbrushes can be deadly objects. How much more if prisoners somehow manage to grab an officer’s pen?

Of course, they came prepared: with these Stab-Resistant Prison Pens.

I’m not sure if these are the exact same ones that they use in prisons, but I’m pretty sure their pens have the same ‘stab-resistant’ feature. Which is, they bend this way and that when someone tries to use them to stab somebody.

So if you have some sort of phobia that has something to do with getting stabbed by a pen, then you’d better carry only these types of pens in your home and in your office.

A pack of five Stab-Resistant Prison Pens are available from ThinkGeek for $5.99(USD).

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