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Ex prisoner here, got released recently after doing a few years in CDCR and this is pretty accurate
The fact you added the detail of toothpaste on flossing string is amazing
Great work!
I never go to prison before
Then never do go to prison...no good.
Fun fact though,weirdly enough it's better than most county jais...l@@Huntergreatone
Hah prison basic try ohio thats the real stuff
I've never even been arrested but I done things that should have landed me there..
What you do
I can confirm most if not all of this because my dad worked in a prison and had to deal with all kinds of similar stuff
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@@Trailbreaker3966 lol 😆 😂
22:33 - 🤣 good accent we don’t all sound that well spoken though 😂😂😂❤❤
Probably the richest accent I've ever heard
Book bans are a favorite for jails and prisons, as their extreme paranoia lets them consider anything and everything as a ‘threat’. Some even place limitations on the number of books available in their ‘libraries’, with no provision for additions, ever.
Although they wouldn't make those rules if something hadn't happened beforehand for those restrictions to be place.
It's almost like they shouldn't be allowed anything whatsoever.
depriving brits of tea is like depriving americans of coffee. some lines just cant be crossed!
Americans? You mean netherlands for coffee. Americans are known for obesity.
You sure the baby oil isn't for Diddy disciples?
🤣
Alright pal
I made a comment like this 😂😂
I had a feeling that there would be a P.Diddy reference when there is Baby Oil around.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Watch MacGyver, you will learn something. These everyday items that prisoners use are similar to the everyday items used by Richard Dean Anderson's MacGyver.
Love that show
That British accent 😂😂😂. Wonderfully done lol
can't tell if your'e being sarcastic or not.
This video was minutes ago
Fun fact about the jolly ranchers is that similar to obsidian they can make the sharpest blade out of any candy
@@Bonkaspringbomb dang I love jolly ranchers especially because it can be used as a 🔪
Ontario Canada, the prisons and detention centres have banned books with staples. Especially the calendar/planner books. The staples can be pulled out, and used as a needle, for giving tattoos.
Toronto's detention centres, ban soda pop, and serve food in Styrofoam or trays, that have to be returned after each meal.
They don't have Jolly Ranchers, that I remember ... but they have things like Scotch Mints etc.
13:46 Trying to pull the wool over our eyes, those weren't MTG cards but Yu-Gi-Oh! cards disguised as MTG cards.
Was literally about to say that. Had to backtrack when I saw magical scientist and delinquent duo.
Graceful Charity and Imperial Order are also in that hand. Though I admit, it's kinda cool to see Magical Scientist adapted for MTG.
Yo my favourite magic card is Pikachu
Saw this video, started watching it, and got to this point, and had to have a double take. After looking a little closer noticed all were YGO cards, not MTG. You'd think Be Amazed would be a little more factual and have the right thing posted in the video lol.
Old facilities used bars. Division 1 Cook County still has them. That was where Capone was housed. Modern facilities use solid doors with an access hole for food trays etc. That's only if they are keeping inmates in cells. Very often they're actually in dorms with 40 bunk beds.
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I'm in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 I do drink Yorkshire Tea, but only once every 4-6 months I love nescafe extra strong 😅😅
The fill the gum mold with molten jolly ranchers
Love your video Be Amazed and keep up the great work you are awesome
I worked in a prison in the U.K. They had to take out all the hand sanitizers throughout the prison because some prisoners figured out a way to make spice out of it. Very resourceful!
Former CO here. I've seen a lot of this stuff in person, though the Jolly Ranchers are mostly used for making hooch. Same with any sugary foods.
As a former state prisoner myself, we didn't need dental floss. We would removed string from the hem of our clothing! 😂 problem solved! 💯
No way😊
Long hair works just as well too for flossing! I've never been to jail or prison but I've been dirt poor
What did you do to end up there?
was it just as minty yeah no way
@@Nameless_Night But long hair can break and snap
As for the Jolly Rancher Ban.... the prison that I was housed in, rid the store of ranchers due to the melting and molding of the sweetness, transforming them into "JOLLY TOYS" ... If you are picking up what I'm laying down! 🤭 🫠 🤣
they are also excellent toilet wine starters.
i mean i guess you do what you gotta do when lonely
Why would anyone bother when everyone comes already equipped with the basic digits?
Sweet Treats 😈🤣🤣😅
@@islandgal500 Not everyone can get aroused or reach climax in that way.
Had a few ex GF's that got absolutely nothing from manual simulation.
In some cases, it's the size. Fingers are too small, and fists are too big.
I'd go further, but i'd probably get banned.
3:53 at least they can celebrate Orange shirt day
should do a sequel... the one on what is banned in schools. Now, I'm not talking about your madame like trading cards... I'm talking about some bizarre things school had banned.
10:57 technically we’re in the middle of the food chain.
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Nothing really surprising especialy the floss and wired notebooks, etc. As a second job, I taught college courses in the prisons, 84 courses over 24 years, ending this year,. And although I taught much less frequently since just before the pandemic and after the pandemic, I've had 1050 prison inmate students, although a few hundred took more than one course from me because they knew they'd learn well in my classes. My dad completed the same college program the 2nd time he was locked up when I was growing up.
How dare you insult yugioh by putting their iconic cards into the frames of the inferior magic the gathering
Ha, both are nothing compared to the majesty of Pokemon.
Gotta catch 'em all.
MTG came out first. Yu-Gi-Oh is a cheap imitation. Also, MTG never needed a show to advertise for it.
Have you seen Brazilian parents straight up destroying the cards
This is soooo entertaining for some reason, thx!
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Prisoners could easily make a fake key like in Escapists 2, which could explain why some prisoners would use bubble gum as a key mold. They could use plastic to make a fake key which could work (even if it does take a lot of time).
THERE AINT NO PARTY LIKE A DIDDY PARTY 😂😂😂
Absolutely the most Criminal thing here was taking the prisoners tea away, absolutely shocking, that's just not cricket 😮😉🤣🤣 This video was insane though with all the the simple things refashioned into something else. I think the redesigned use of the remote control back was the most unexpected for me. Humans when given enough time find a way unfortunately 🙁😔 Fascinating video guys, as always, thank you ❤
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20:11 diddys gonna be so upset
Good one 😂
I was about to say the same thing!!!
Brain rot!
Hahahaha quote of the day sir! 😂
Thanks for the tutorial
Crazy
You didn't even finish the video before posting this comment.
@ thanking in advance because I knew this was gonna be a banger
I comment as I'm watching cuz I've been to prison and seen inmates imagine up so many ways to replace something that is banned time to think about EVERYTHING POSSIBLE ❤
WHAT.
It feels illegal to be this early to a be amazed vid good job be amazed keep up the good work and we might get to 14m by the end of the year also the British accent was beautiful
The clips of Orange is the new black brought back memories. I was an extra, playing a correction officer in 6 episodes of the last season. Fun times
as someone who worked as a corrections officer for 6 years I can confirm this is 99% accurate and can also tell you that an Inmate made a working crossbow out of paper and a shoelace, the paper was soaked in a mixture of water and some everyday household stuff like starch(we don't know the exact mixture or everything in the mixture but I got to handle it back in 2016) that hardened it and the projectile being a hard candy shank(like the pointy jolly rancher shank you showed) so that the candy dissolving gets rid of evidence. those hard candy weapons are stronger then you think and will stab someone as deep as a metal or plastic shank but is purposely made to be broke off and left in the victims body so no evidence could be found.
lets now talk tools. inmates use nail clippers as screw drivers and mini wrenches that is after altering a pair of nail clippers with sandpaper(from education) or on the concrete floor they can have multiple tools that can then be used to alter other things or take out special headed screws like the star and "tamper proof" screws. I even used a nail clipper flat head screw driver to un-alter an altered personal fan in the picket one day after I did the cell searches I needed that day with the altered nail clippers and altered fan being some of the contraband I had found and I do say it worked pretty good. I learned alot about what the inmates use from the tattoo artists because of the rep I got early on one tattoo artist asked me what my expectations for the pod was and he straight out told me he does ink and he didn't want to loose money from me coming in there all the time so I told him my minimum requirements and asked him how he conducts his operation and he gave me his top three rules with number one rule being "if you don't bring me a needle I don't do work on you" because he understands about tats being a way of spreading aids and nasty stuff of the like. and over the years he gave me more and more info and insight in how the tattoo operations work and made it easier to shut down other tattoo operations funny thing is when I went into his pod to do a bunk search one day the watcher wasn't at his post and the bunk on the search was a tattoo artist I scared him he gave me a "dummy gun" aka a fake tattoo gun and I was like WTF is this as the inmate said "sorry bossman" and then called my informant over and handed it to him and asked him "WTF is this man" he told me "it's a dummy gun" he handed it back to the guy who gave it to me and told me "alot of other C\O's are so gullible that they see that and think its the real thing and run out with it so proud of themselves but your the son of stan the wire man(my dad was given this nickname by the inmates because he was unrivaled in finding running wire aka the wire planted into the cracks in the floor going from power source to the bunk the booster is placed) so you already knew what the real thing looked like"
Another video. That's what I stay on TH-cam for
Vegemite and Marmite is banned in almost all, if not all Australian prisons because it has a high concentration of yeast and can be used to make alcohol.
I saw the thumbnail of the video when I got the upload notification. Immediately blew my mind that a Jolly Rancher Shiv exists...like wtf
I like the art work of Be amazed
I still laugh at the toothbrush shiv. 😂
The D&D ban does make sense as many campaign settings actually have "how to guides" on ESCAPING CONFINEMENT! In ways both subtle and gross, violent or not.
some could argue that allowing D&D and only banning specific content of it would be far preferable. rather than "you're not allowed fantasy of being free, going around slaying monsters" make it "You're not allowed a fantasy of escaping prison".
18:54 or as those of us in the military will call it, a "sock party", and yes they do quite a bit of damage mostly internal
Dental floss comes in precut lengths on a holder, combined with a pick. Reach has one that allows you to use a toothbrush type handle with floss. On both, the floss is 1/2 inch long.
If these people had applied this much ingenuity and effort to their lives, they'd never have been locked up in the first place.
Specific images or colors or sounds invoke specific feelings which invoke specific thought patterns or actions based on natural and artificial frequencies and their power as well as a person's genetics and already developed thought patterns. A prjson is designed to study humans in general
prisons in america are mostly privately owned - they're intended to turn a profit. Which is why they place little-to-no emphasis on rehabilitation. That said, other countries like sweden from what I've heard, keep their prisons government owned. meaning they don't turn a profit, resulting in a greater emphasis on lowering recidivism.
@synthwolfe8906 how many years you serve?
@@missboopadoop none. I heavily researched prison systems as a sociology project though. America has one of the highest recidivism rates in the developed world, though. We're also one fo the few countries that allows privately owned prisons. and there is an inverse correlation between number of privately owned prisons and recividism rates - more privately owned tends to mean a higher likelihood of prisoners being committed again.
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10:09 they could smuggle out the mold and have the key cast outside and smuggled back in 🤷
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No more baby oil for Diddy😂
not sure if people talked about the currently artstyle in this video
but it looks decent
English secondary schooler here. I can confirm tea is a lot to us. I once took bags of sugar into my school as they wouldnt let us have sugar in our teas. I snuck it in anyway and when they found out they had to repremand me but it was clear they found it funny. Now if you excuse me im going to go have my midnight crumpets, bottle of water and Yorkshire tea.
In the uk they copy and print the letters out because of drugs and also no greeting cards except via a card delivery site online (our most popular are funky pigeon & moonpig)
Ankle socks can EASILY be stretched into a flail by just wetting them and pulling them. The elastic will stretch upwards 3x its normal size.
Our jail and prisons have banned the foll things, hot pots, Vaseline and baby oil, smoking except for e cigs, and offenders are not allowed to seal the mail everything gets gone through
I spent 90 days in Roanoke County's Finest and I bought jolly ranchers every week. I never considered making a weapon (and the girls did used to melt them together).
20:20 they banned baby oil because of diddy
20 years in the Texas penitentiary, and a lot almost 75% of these are very miss-truths or are only JAIL related instead of PRISON related.
If the OP wants to reach out for me to itemize this list as they relate to either jail or prison, I'd be happy to do so
swahili is the national language of the country of Tanzania not of the country what ever flag that u showed in the 7:48 [ just an FYI]
Now, those guys have 17 stories to tell about their escape 😂
I didn't expect the prison to banned Dungeons and Dragons.
22:00 no time for tEA only time for coffEA 😂
11:55 you realy think they have brain cells to destroy 😂😂
Being British I have to say I liked the last one (especially the way you presented it). Although I think you missed out one British thing...Complaining! For instance we will happily queue...but we will happily complain about queuing. If it is not about the length of the queue we may find something else about the queue to complain about.
Someone bouta say "54 views in 2 minutes bro fell off" 🤓☝️ or smthn like that, they goofy asl
Real
More on the bubble gum they were used to jam up the mechanisms in the locks without blocking access to the keyhole. There's tons of prison hacks I learned including multiple ways to keep the doors from locking while looking like it's locked to the gaurds.
If i ever get caught escaping prison, i will just say "Be amazed taught me tricks to escape"
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20:27
Well you can light babyoil on fire collect the soot and make tattoo ink
Two colleagues found that bubblegum (Chappies (TM)) made a good replacement head gasket during maneuvers. Understandable it would not be allowed in prisons.
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Slightly off on the orange jumpsuits, at least with US Federal prisons. The orange jumpsuits are only used for transport. Everyday wear is button-up khaki shirts and khaki slacks. Casual wear, like workout sweats, shorts, etc. are grey.
I spent 2 years in prison and wore grey shorts evey day.
Bro, they didn't ban Jolly Ranches because of "shank potential" ... its because you can make some fire ass hooch with them.
and dildos, i heard the women made dildos 😂
Or both, lol.
@@hollyhartwick3832 Sorry, no. Jolly Ranchers have never been used to make a fucking shank in any prison. The inmate would get more bang for his buck making hooch, then selling that for a real shank. Ain't no inmate running around with a fucking Jolly Rancher shank FFS.
Or as another commenter said, some jolly toys, wink wink nudge nudge.
@@Queina1so three uses then 😂
We love our TEA, we really do. Yorkshire Biscuit Tea being at the top.
It’s my first time seeing this is gonna be great. 😃
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It’s kind of scary how candy can be turned into a potential weapon.
I mean to be fair on that last one, tea is hot! It can easily be used as a weapon against guards and inmates alike, but to deprive them entirely of all tea is something I can't agree with, at the very least... how about a room temperatured small paper cup of Arizona Iced Tea? ☺️🧡🍵
I just did 6 years in a federal camp and believe it or not we had everything on this list on our commissary. Federal prisons camps are like all men’s college. I have a lot of fellow inmates compare it to living in a college dorm or a military dorm, minus the military exercises. You ever go to prison in America you definitely want to do your time in a federal prison camp!
Hard candies are banned mainly because of their sugar. The candy is used to make hooch (prison alcohol). Not so much the weapons and drugs.
Don't underestimated people because they are in prison
When baby oil was mentioned as a banned item, I was expecting a different kind of intrusive use for it in prison.
nah. that particular use would, if anything, make the act LESS harmful. it's the friction created that rips and tears, add a little oil for lubrication, and it's less dangerous. That said, I was expecting something similar, initially.
"habari" from be amazed 7:54 is more habaring that from a native swahili😅😅
For hand sanitizer to work, you need to add salt so the ingredients separate.
We get jolly ranchers and other candy here in Colorado jail and prison.
Some books may not make sense such as the web design. IT books are massive. I own “Mike Myer: Comptia A+” computer repair is good skill to have but that book behind bar could be a lethal weapon. I clocks at 1419 pages. That’s why some titles may baffle people. IT books in general tend to be 600+ pages.
Most people might think some if not all of the banned items are ridiculous but for those of us who grew up watching MacGyver on TV we can see what they do not. You can make some of the most outrageous things out of almost nothing at all. I personally think that's one of the reasons MacGyver was cancelled is because the things he made in the show actually worked and I'm sure some kids (or grownups) tried them out and bad things happened. Lol
AKtually, most of the stuff in macgyver didn't work.
Mythbusters did a bunch of episodes that pretty much debunked many of his antics.
As for the shows cancellation, it had to do the cast and crew being a bit burned out, with anderson stating that the physical demands were a bit too much for him and they wanted the show to go out on a high note, instead of meandering on.
British here, btw i HATE tea! I'm very unpopular at social events 😂 but just wanna say, our prison system is weak AF we need to take a leaf out of USA and other countries' books. Criminals get sent to prisons im gonna name one here, Forest Bank in Manchester England. Someone tried to unalive me, it was declassed from attempted unaliving to GBH and heard in Magistrates court NOT Crown court where serious crimes are heard. The maximum sentence for anything held at a magistrates is 4 months in this forest bank place. He got the max but was allowed to wait until after christmas and new year! Then he went in and only served 8 weeks. The place has a nickname because its more like a hotel. They are afforded times to play computer games, pool and snooker, yes they wear their own clothes, they get 3 square meals a day, plus snacks, some even get day release unsupervised they can leave in the morning and come back at night. They call it a Holiday camp and openly laugh at being sentencedto go there. I suffered permanent damage and i now need pain patches- Butran patches they are called and when this male who had beat me and my daughter ( 12 at the time who was holding my 1 yr old baby girl trying to flee and get help) before kidnapping my son, was told i had to be put on serious pain medicines, then mentioned the patches, I was told that his response was "So what" and a comment about some of the prisoners were on them, and they would freeze them and i assume scrape off the substance to eat/sniff, consume it in some way. If you are reading this and dont know, the pain patch is like a plaster/ band aid that has a shiny part in the centre of the underside. This is stuck to your body and works by slowly absorbing into your skin, so over a week period there will be a certain prescribed amout of the active ingredient constantly going directly in that route rather than pills. ( its not fentanyl- ive only ever known 1 person ever to be even given Fentanyl in hospital- me. And it was via an IV with a pump that could only be pressed every hour or so during a childbirth that was particularly horrific). Speaking of the HUGE miscarriage of justice, ( he wanted to appeal his sentence- but that meant it would be heard in Crown court and of course he was guilty and knew it, if they'd re-trailled in Crown court and found guilty he wouldve been sentenced to GBH, assaulting a child, kidnapping... he wouldve got 20 years at least (10 with good behaviour🤮) He was informed by a relative who was a cop unfortunately, and so he dropped his appeal 😢 But he would have gone to a prison called Strangeways ( Google it if you are ever bored or want to see the British versions of Prison. Manchester where i live is the second biggest city in England coming only after London, our capital city, in the south- everyones heard of London, but Manchester which is North is massively overlooked. So the low security prison was Forest Bank, the high security one is Strangeways, famous for a stunt where many prisoners got onto the roof- (There are sime quite funny pics of that on the internet) and ultimately the whole prison section began a riot of some sort i believe it was in the 90s😮) Apparently its a Harsher place meant for the most serious crimes, but even there, its a holiday a vacation to most of them. As a nation we are too lenient. Example- A male who is in the country cos his parents were seeking assylum here who is 18 but was 17 in August, targeted a Taylor Swift themed summertime event for little 6 year olds, held at a school. He took a big 🔪 in there and injured so many, 3 6yr old little girls were lost. He showed no remorse he was sentenced in the last week, its awful. After he did all that he said he "was glad they were not alive anymore" ( sorry i cant quote due to yt guidelines) he was only given life term of minimum of 52 or 54 years so he will be out of there if he lives long enough. He should've been given the same sentence as those victims' families, but as he has no remorse, he isn't gonna reflect on that. Id 💯% support the D☠️ penalty in cases like this. Thats what the USA would do, theres full on camera footage of him leaving his house, gim in a cab, and in the school so theres no possibility of wrongful conviction. It wouldve been life without parole but nope, all cos he was shy of his 18th birthday - pathetic. Oh, and they found a certain "Group" manual, ton of 🔪 and " that group info" on his computer. So a greater threat- which i believe wasnt included in his conviction or sentencing. I think the parents are Rwandan. Such a nice way to pay our country back for opening its doors for him to be born. I wish i could emigrate to USA so much. 😕
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I’m just happy they didn’t ban The Pilgrims Progress or Little Pilgrims Progress
I could never figure out why prisons allow outside items in in the first place. All letters from home should be printed inside the prison from a digital source. Basic essentials is all that should be given to prisoners, they are paying a debt to society and it should something difficult to live through.
11:48 I’ve heard of losing brain cells but not literally
Didn't expect baby oil 🤣
I think Drugs can be smuggled very easily.
You can just spray LSD liquid to any ordinary book page ,
And give it to the prisoner.
They can use them as LSD stamps and they can sell them to inmates too for money or any other items.
Dental floss can cut through bars.The MythBusters showed it but it will take an insanely long time
I think if u use the joollly ranchers with the bubble fum then u can fill the hole up and make the key i think