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Slideshow of Prison Shivs

This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities:

A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque. They�re primitive, too � like outsider art, but produced deep on the inside.

The individual parts that make up a shiv tend to be everyday objects, innocent things furtively reconstituted as lethal weapons. Each design choice is essential, but what�s particularly notable is that shivs, at their core, are not so much evocations of minimalism as they are symbols of survivalism. A shiv is all about masked utility: it�s an innocuous object with improbably toxic intent (whether used to attack others or to protect oneself...).

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This is a slideshow of shivs confiscated from maximum-security prison facilities: A shiv is a weapon crafted from the limited resources of a prisoner�s closed world. Crudely constructed from such things as spoons, shoelaces and upholstery tacks, shivs lie somewhere between the graceful and the grotesque. They�re primitive, too � like outsider art, but [...]

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