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Contraband Weapons—Shivs and Shanks at the NLEM

January 20, 2010

Tags: artifacts, contraband, corrections officers, Louisiana State Univ., prison, prisoners, shank, shiv

In 2007, Louisiana State University (LSU) donated a collection of contraband weapons to the National Law Enforcement Museum. According to Barry Cowan, LSU Archivist, the weapons originally formed a display used by LSU’s Law Enforcement Training Program, which ran from…