Marc Steinmetz took these wonderful photos of gadgets made by prisoners to help them try to escape, to conceal contraband, or to help them conduct forbidden activities.

This shotgun was "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, 1984 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 [bottom of picture], and escaped by car."

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