10件誕生於監獄的瘋狂臨時武器(上)

Prison can be an incredibly violent place and since the people who are locked up have plenty of time on their hands, they have come up with some pretty inventive ways to try to hurt each other and correction officers. All of these weapons were actually found in prisons throughout the world, and in some cases, they were even used.

監獄可以充滿暴力，裏面的人空閒時間又多，於是發明了一些傷害獄友和獄警的法子。下面這些武器其實都誕生於監獄，有些甚至真的被用上了。

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10.十字架藏刀

Shivs, which are handmade knives, are the most common type of weapon made in prison and they are most commonly made from toothbrushes. Toothbrushes are easy to get and they are either filed down to a point or something sharp, like a razor blade, is embedded in it.

Shiv是一種手工製作的刀，也是監獄中最常見的武器，通常來自於牙刷。獲得牙刷很容易，然後要麼磨尖它，要麼加上剃刀片之類的尖銳物。

However, this shiv hidden in a cross is a whole different story. It was found in the city prison in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, in 1994. At the time that it was found, making shivs concealed in crosses in the workshops was a bit of a cottage industry for the inmates. Eventually, the guards caught on and thecross weapons were confiscated.

不過這把十字架藏刀完全不是那回事。它在1994年被發現於德國沃爾芬比特爾市監獄。當時，犯人在車間製作十字架藏刀幾乎蔚然成風。警衛最終發現了這件事，沒收了這些十字武器。

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9.收音機炸彈

One of the most inventive ways that someone thought of attacking a fellow inmate was dreamt up by South Carolinian serial killer Donald Henry "Peewee" Gaskins. Between 1953 and 1982, Gaskins killed at least eight people in South Carolina, but confessed to killing over 100 people. In May 1976, he was sentenced to death. However, later that year in November, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional, so Gaskins' sentence was commuted to life. However, Gaskins wouldn't stay off death row for very long.

美國南卡羅來納州連環殺手小唐納德·亨利·加斯金攻擊獄友的點子空前絕後。1953和1982年間，加斯金在南卡羅來納殺害了至少8人，但自稱超過了100人。1976年5月，他被判處死刑。最高法院在11月裁定此判決違憲，於是他被改判無期。不過他的死期不會遠了。

In 1982, a man named Tony Cimo contacted Gaskins in prison. Cimo wanted Gaskins to kill another prisoner, Rudolph Tyner. Tyner had been convicted of killing Cimo's mother and stepfather in a botched robbery.

1982年，監獄一個叫託尼·西蒙的人聯繫了加斯金，想讓他去殺另一個犯人魯道夫·特納。特納曾供認在一次拙劣的搶劫中殺害了西蒙的母親和繼父。

Over the next several weeks, Gaskins attempted to kill Tyner in several different ways, like poisoning his food, but then he somehow got hold of some C4. Gaskins put the C4 and a transmitter in a radio, and then he gave the radio to Tyner. He told Tyner that he had rigged the radio so that they could communicate through them, like Walkie-Talkies. Gaskins then told Tyner to put the radio close to his head at a specific time to talk. Tyner believed him, and Gaskins detonated the bomb from his cell, killing Tyner. Gaskins admitted to laughing so hard that it would have been the last thing that Tyner heard; well, besides the C4 detonating.

後來的幾週中，加斯金做了幾次嘗試，比如在食物中下毒。然後，他得到了塑膠爆炸物C4，把它和一個發射器藏在收音機中給了特納。他騙特納說自己把這臺收音機改裝成了對講機，要特納在特定時刻把收音機放在耳邊對話。特納相信了，然後加斯金就在自己的牢房引爆炸彈殺死了特納。加斯金承認自己笑得很大聲，那也許是爆炸之外，特納聽到的最後聲音了。

Gaskins was again found guilty of murder, and by this time the death penalty in South Carolina had been reinstated. Gaskins was sentenced to death again and "the Meanest Man in America," as he was called in the press, was executed on September 6, 1991, at the age of 58 via the electric chair.

加斯金又犯了殺人罪，而且此時南卡羅來納已經恢復死刑。加斯金再次被判死刑，這個58歲的“美國最卑鄙的人”在1991年9月6號被電椅處死。

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8.剃刀鞭

This nasty piece of work isn't so much clever as it is frightening. It was discovered in the Fuhlsbüttel Prison in Hamburg, Germany in 1996, in the cell of a drug addict. It was found after the inmate got into some trouble in the prison. He wanted more methadone and when he didn't get it, he grabbed a knife and threatened a nurse.

這件討厭的作品雖然巧妙，卻很可怕。它於1996年在德國漢堡Fuhlsbuettel區監獄一個吸毒者的牢房中被發現，此前該囚犯陷入了監獄裏的一些麻煩。他想要更多的美沙酮卻沒有得到，於是抓了一把刀威脅一個護士。

After threatening the nurse, the inmate's cell was searched and inside they found the whip. We know, surprise, surprise, the drug addicted prison inmate didn't think things through. Had he threatened her with the whip, he might have been able to get more methadone, gotten high and then lost the whip. Instead, he got nothing, except for a few days in solitary confinement.

威脅護士後，囚犯的牢房被搜查，發現了鞭子。我們驚奇地發現，吸毒者並沒有深思熟慮。如果他用鞭子威脅護士，可能會得到更多的美沙酮，過把癮，然後失去了鞭子。而現在，他什麼都沒有得到，還得被關幾天禁閉。

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7.雙節棍

On September 19, 2011, Lorenzo Pollard, who was doing time for theft and resisting arrest at a medium security prison in St. Louis, Missouri, showed that sometimes the simplest weapons can be the most effective. We're also guessing that if he had to pick a favorite Ninja Turtle, he'd go with Michelangelo.

2011年9月19日，因爲盜竊和拒捕，洛倫佐·波拉德正在密蘇里州聖路易斯的一箇中度安全管理監獄服刑，並發現有時最簡單的武器可能最有效。我們也猜測，如果他必須選一個最喜歡的忍者神龜，他會選“米開朗基羅”（譯註：其武器是雙節棍）。

In his cell, Pollard made a set of nunchucks out of a bed sheet and a chair. Then, using his makeshift nunchucks, he managed to fight off about a dozen guards, scaled a fence, and escaped. He lasted on the lam for two days before he was arrested again.

在他的牢房裏，波拉德用牀單和椅子做了一套雙節棍，並用它成功打倒十幾個警衛，翻過柵欄逃跑了。他在拉姆斯呆兩天才被再次逮捕。

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6. Jolly Ranchers刀

Being able to eat candies is probably one of the few small luxuries that people in prison get to experience. However, some inmates have jeopardized this luxury by making candy into weapons. Amazingly, this is such a common route to create a weapon that it was implemented into the plot of Orange is the New Black.

吃糖可能是坐牢時爲數不多的小奢侈之一。然而，一些囚犯利用這種奢侈，將糖果製成了武器。令人驚訝的是，這種武器製作相當常見，都被拍進《女子監獄》了。

One candy that has been used to make a weapon is Jolly Ranchers, which are made into shivs. To make the shiv, inmates place the candies in a single file on aluminum foil, and then wrap it up. Then they heat the tinfoil wrapped candies and this melts them together into one long stick. Once it's a single stick, then it's just a matter of sharpening one end of it. This leaves the inmate with a sharp and durable weapon, and it is also easy to dispose of. An inmate can simply bite off the sharp end and dissolve it in his or her mouth. So prisoners can either stab someone or get some candy; talk about versatility!

一種用來製造武器的糖是Jolly Ranchers，它們被製成shiv刀。囚犯將糖用一片鋁箔包起來，然後加熱，將糖融化成一根長棍。全部融化後，就只用再把長棍一段壓尖了。這樣囚犯就得到了一把鋒利耐用的武器，而且很容易銷燬。囚犯只用咬斷鋒利的末端，讓它在嘴裏融化。所以囚犯可以要麼刺傷某人，要麼得到一些糖：真是用途廣泛！