Objects that were Made by Prisoners



Emilio San Vicente

Mr. Roddy

HISS

26/3/2020


Objects that were Made by Prisoners
So for this topic I will like to introduce how interesting and creative can humans be in any circumstance whether it is their homes or in the prisons. So we said that the human can solusionate problems with some tools and creativity but how about we go prisons how interesting will be to know how does this people can live without to many options to create something, well you might think that if they have any opportunity to create something it would a weapon, but actually there are cases were it is funny to see the creations of the prisiones.
Well in the article that I read, it is called “Objects Made by Prisoners In the United States” and actually it was very interesting to read because it explains the different materials that the prisoners used and also the functions that every piece of object can do. For example we can find toothbrushes, coffee kits, Weight-lifting gloves etc. In some cases It is known that these objects were removed from their owners because of the fear of being later a weapon but actually most of the guards in the prisons just ignored those elements and decided to don’t take them away. 
Personally I found this topic very interesting because if you think beyond this object we can see how intelligent the prisoners are to know which materials are useful and which one not, and we know that there are some objects that are easy to make in some way but there are others that took like 2 weeks to make and it is the case of a tattoo gun that actually works good. Knowing this before most of these prisoners had backgrounds of knowing to build objects like this and also guns, so it is an interesting thing to know about. Now we can find some similar objects in different museums around the country.

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