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Typologies of Prison Tools

It was either Beierle or Kei­jser (one of the Mrs. Deane halflings) who emailed and pointed out Simon Menner’s photographic series Objects – 2010. Typology is a trendy term that gets ba…

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/typologies-of-prison-tools/

Brett Yasko produced the independent book Shiv that features eleven prisoner-made weapons from the collection of Chris Kasabach and Vanessa Sica. The shivs were confiscated in the 1980s at Rahway – now known as East Jersey State Prison. Yasko’s photographs were presented in Design Observer’s feature Art of the Shiv.