I do know that it's a bitch to replace your strings in Maine's prisons.
You've gotta get someone on the outside to send them to you. Then, you need to schedule an appointment to go to the security office. Once there, you have to change your strings in front of the officer, including trimming them down correctly.
They don't want the strings to be used for tattooing.
He gets out sometime this year. I write a letter once in a while and make sure he's got money on his books to make his life a little easier. He also calls, but phone calls are stupidly expensive from jails/prisons. There's some local regulation that helped and some federal regulation that only applies to the fed joints where they're limited to like $0.25 a minute.
The local jail charges $15 for a ten minute phone call
I'm not sure how good a saw it'd make against hardened steel, but then again they cut up metal using toothpaste and dental floss. If you've got 24 hours a day to think about being bad, there's gonna be something you can come up with.
And the cost of phone calls from jails/prisons is fucking retarded. I can afford it. Now, how many people are in my shoes? Better, how many people with incarcerated loved ones have enough money to regularly communicate with loved ones? Unless they're a drug dealer that's on the phone all day, you're shit out of luck when it comes to keeping up with friends and family.
By the way, keeping up with friends and family is one of the best ways to reduce recidivism. Go figure?
And guitar strings would make for a very effective garrote.
You could cut the grout between the cinder blocks with it easier that the hardened steel
I can understand that, you can easily chock someone out with one, or make a saw
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