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Trash turned to treasures: Inmates create jewelry by using discarded items


Staff photo by Evan Lewis An inmate at Miller County Jail shows off his ring and necklace made from food wrappers and paper. Hispanic prisoners brought the craft into the jail and have taught many of the others how to make the woven wears.
Discarded items like candy wrappers, potato chip bags and grocery sacks are commonly used by inmates to create jail house jewelry. Pieces of a grocery sack are tied to something in the prisoner’s cell and stretched. The stick from a corny dog is tied to the other end and the stretched plastic is twisted and twisted until it becomes a strong enough strand to braid, knot and weave. Brightly hued bits of packaging from sweets and junk food purchased in the jail commissary are interwoven to add flash and color. For some, it brings to mind the old adage, “One man’s trash is anoth...
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