30 unusual pieces that were made right in prison

When it's so boring that you want to climb the wall, people often wake up with a creative streak. And how else to explain these bizarre inventions and crafts made behind bars?

A boiling pot made from an old coffee can. It was used to brew prison moonshine

A key assembled from a piece of wood, a pair of screws, and a washer

This papier-mache head is one of the ones used by Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin when they tried to escape from Alcatraz in 1962

They also assembled this drill from the vacuum cleaner motor. They used it to drill through the walls of their cell

Another piece of jewelry from Alcatraz. A key was cut from this spoon, probably with the help of machines in the prison workshop. Usually, the guards covered the keys with metal covers, so that the prisoners could not remember the pattern and recreate it

The receiver itself was most likely smuggled in, but the cache was definitely made already behind bars

This adorable bear cub was made with a spoon and painted with what was found in the prison

An immersion boiler that was also made for distilling prison alcohol

This cribbage board was made by an Alcatraz inmate and presented to the cook as a token of appreciation. He made the pegs out of toothbrushes

The wooden gun that John Dillinger used to escape from an Indiana prison. The exhibit was sold at auction for $ 19,000

This gun was made by the prisoners from scrap metal found in the prison

This abstraction was made from pieces of broken lunch boxes, rice, red pepper paste, and soy sauce

Homemade sex toys

A box made of chip bags, sheets, and cardboard

A pistol made from a stapler that fires .22-caliber rounds

A sharpener made from a spoon and thread

Sharpening made in the metal shop from nuts and screws

Cat hook made from springs from the bed

Sculptures made of soap

Saw made of sheet metal, twine and wooden shkant

Ice cream stick lamp

Homemade tattoo machine

Abandoned chessboard

The prison system through the eyes of the prisoner

Another tattoo machine

Sex doll

Scrap metal gun

Candy dildo

Works of women's prison inmates made of toilet paper

Toilet paper dice