By Mark Winne
WSBTV
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Col. Mark Adger held a plastic bag with a half dozen cellphones in it, then lifted a long piece of dull silver metal with one end filed to a point, and shreds of navy blue fabric wrapped around the other end.
“This is a jail-made shank, or knife,” he said. “It has a nice handle on it, so they’ve had some time to work on it.”
Cellphones and shanks comprise routine hazards in jails and prisons. These particular phones veered from the routine because of where they turned up: on 7North, one of the highest security sections in the Fulton County Jail.
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