2009年11月3日 · SHIV - disguised as a wooden crucifix;found in an inmate’s cell in Wolfenbüttel prison, Germany, sometime around 1994; intended for use in an escape or as a general weapon. At that time a lot of crucifixes were fashioned in prison woodshops until jailers finally figured out their true purpose.

The word is prison slang for an improvised knife. The word generally applies to both stabbing and edged weapons. A shiv can be anything from a glass shard with fabric wrapped around one end to form a handle, to a razor blade stuck in the end of a toothbrush, to a simple toothbrush handle, filed to a sharp point.

2024年3月18日 · Child murderer Edward Schaefer was fatally stabbed in the neck and chest with a home-made weapon described as a “bone-crusher” in 2010. Schaefer, 44, of Novato was repeatedly gored in a prison yard by an unnamed inmate and died the same day.

Some will, “…fashion the metal post of a bunk bed or the edge of a cell door into a spear…that could be flung from inside a cell and penetrate a man’s neck or liver”, [10] which is called the bone crusher. Some inmates will go to great lengths to create weapons and many different ways to create these weapons has been discovered.

2009年9月10日 · This terrifying-looking blade, concealed in a crucifix, was confiscated from an inmate in a German prison. It was made by the inmate in the prison workshop. This is a sophisticated example of a jailhouse shiv; most are made from primitive materials like chicken bones, sharpened toothbrush handles, and melted and hardened trash bags or Styrofoam ...

What is a bone crusher in prison? At least one suspected murder weapon was recovered. Authorities said the implement was the type of weapon generally known as a “bone crusher,” an improvised metal spear larger than a typical prison shank.

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The incident reports released under freedom of information show deadly jailhouse weapons can be fashioned from almost anything that can be found inside the prison confines.

A prison shiv, also known as a shank, is a crude and often dangerous weapon made by inmates using everyday materials found in prison. These weapons are typically used for protection, intimidation, or as a means of asserting dominance within the prison hierarchy.

The shiv is the favored weapon of inmates in prisons across the world. It is famous for its versatility - a shiv can be anything from a glass shard with cloth wrapped around one end to form a handle, to a razorblade stuck in the end of a toothbrush, to a sharpened spoon.