A homemade shiv stashed behind a jail cell radiator. A scalpel tucked inside an air vent. A handcuff key hidden within the pages of a magazine. These are just some of the disturbing and dangerous ...

Wilkins said Michael McLellan used a homemade handcuff key to take off the cuffs while being taken to Central Prison in Raleigh after being sentenced Friday morning. He added McLellan was able to ...

A convicted murderer from Los Angeles County may have used a makeshift key to shed his handcuffs and shackles ... Additional homemade keys may have also been found in Hernandez’s cell, he ...

He said a total of two homemade keys were seized, with the first key actually becoming stuck in the handcuffs. McLellan is now kept in a high-security area at North Carolina Central Prison in ...

"(Department of Corrections) discovered that he had a homemade handcuff key on his person," Sills said he told Judge Alison Burleson in a security briefing preceding Dubose's appearance at the ...

They were caught three days later in Tennessee. During a court hearing Friday, the judge learned prison officials found a homemade handcuff key hidden in Dubose’s hair on Christmas Eve.