Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A shiv, also chiv, schiv, shivvie or shank, [1] [2] is a handcrafted bladed weapon resembling a knife that is commonly associated with prison inmates. Since weapons are prohibited in prisons, the intended mode of concealment is central to a shiv's construction.
The report said that retribution for snitching led to an increased incidence of inmate-on-inmate violence at the prison in the late 1970s. [15] There had been several disturbances at the prison prior to the riot. In 1976, a work strike was organized by inmates as a response to the prison's poor conditions.
In 1947, Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank State Prison to serve two consecutive life sentences for murdering his wife and her lover. He is befriended by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, a contraband smuggler serving a life sentence, who procures for him a rock hammer and a large poster of Rita Hayworth.
An Athens man with what federal agents said is a violent criminal history was recently sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Athens man sentenced to prison for having shanks in Butts County ...
Tatterson said that she visited the prison in 2009 during a tour of East Coast abandoned places. She captured the prison in 20 photos. A description winds the reader through the history of the ...
While serving a 37-year sentence for armed bank robbery at United States Penitentiary, Canaan, he stabbed his cellmate Joseph O’Kane, to death with a homemade prison shank. O'Kane was a member of the Gambino crime family serving a life sentence for murder in aid of racketeering. Dominick Maldonado: 02071-122: Serving a 163-year state sentence.
Apr. 9—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph WELCH — An inmate pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to having a homemade knife at a federal prison. William Williams, 24, an inmate at the ...
Shawshank State Prison also appears in several episodes of the Hulu original series Castle Rock. For the series, the showrunners used the West Virginia Penitentiary as the prison. “Part of the reason we chose the prison that we chose to shoot at was we loved the idea that there are houses literally in the shadow of the prison," said ...