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amazing ingenuity in prisoners’ inventions

Prisoner

Back in 2001, the artists’ collective Temporary Services started a project with a prison inmate named Angelo in which they asked him to document how inmates adapt to their surroundings while confined.

The project, entitled Prisoners’ Inventions, resulted in this fascinating 119-page book of detailed drawings that explain exactly how prisoners build contrivances from all…

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October 1st, 2006 comments (6) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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