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Nothing, it seems, brings out the ingenuity in a person like prison. Keeping up with inmate improvisation is an endless and thankless project. It seems nothing brings out the ingenuity in a person like an endless sea of days spent staring through bars and thinking about freedom. Photographer Marc Steinmetz must have understood this when he set out to create the fantastic photo essay we've printed below, showing some of the most cunning and creative improvised weapons and tools built by inmates in his home country of Germany.

All images and captions, Marc Steinmetz photography. SHOTGUN - made from iron bedposts; charge made of pieces of lead from curtain tape and match-heads, to be ignited by AA batteries and a broken light bulb. On May 21, two inmates of a prison in Celle, Germany, took a jailer as a hostage, showed off their fire power by letting go at a pane of bullet-proof glass, and escaped by car. At that time a lot of crucifixes were fashioned in prison woodshops until jailers finally figured out their true purpose.

Jailbirds use these tools to distil alcoholic beverages forbidden in prisons. Smoking implements are the most common illicit items in prisons. They were loaded with pieces of steel and match-heads. It is either a weapon, or, attached to a pole, might have been designed to push away barbed wire from the top of a wall during an escape. Around his behaviour finally got the attention of the jailers who gave the prosthesis a check.

WHIP - with razor blades. Prisoners occasionally manage to install gizmos like this one in guard-rooms to be prepared for upcoming cell searches.

Also suitable as a means of cell-to-cell communication among inmates. A standard radio serves as a receiver. This cleverly conceived tool assisted two inmates in their escape from Ludwigsburg prison, Germany, on August 19, The attached rod enabled them to place and retrieve the hook and thus negotiate two prison walls in succession.

A wooden crucifix seems innocent until a removable piece shows it fashioned into a shiv. Serving as a source of income for inmates is a tattoo needle made from a toothbrush handle, a pen and an electric motor. Banded together wires, a broken heating rod and tin foil form a makeshift toasting apparatus. Escape Tools offers a peek into prisoners' struggles and comforts. See more photos of escape tools by Marc Steinmetz below:.

Narcotics cache. Around his behaviour finally caught the attention of the prison guards who then examined his prosthesis. At that time a lot of crucifixes were fashioned in prison woodshops until jailers finally figured out their true purpose.

Prisoners occasionally manage to install gizmos like this one in guard-rooms to be prepared for upcoming cell searches. Also suitable as a means of cell-to-cell communication among inmates. A standard radio serves as a receiver. Inmates often carry illicit weapons, either self-made or smuggled in from outside like the shiv disguised as a ball pen third from right.

Hotplate fashioned from a flatiron which was pilfered from the prison laundry and fitted with a wooden stand. Confiscated in the s at Stammheim prison, Germany. The plastic canister would be filled with fruit mash, sugar and yeast.

After fermentation, a primitive immersion heater was used to distil the alcohol which collected in the water bottle. The bottle still contains the original booze.

The dual-purpose instrument was was probably designed to be used as a weapon, or, attached to a pole, to push aside the barbed wire on top of the walls during a prison break. Escape tools: dummy submachine-gun made from a grease injector, wood, a rubber sleeve, and tape.

Escape Tools: Double-barreled pistol. This gun was found along with other self-made firearms in the cell of two inmates of Celle prison Germany on November 15, They were loaded with pieces of steel and match-heads, to be ignited electrically. Whip with razor blades.

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