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I imagine limits were originally imposed to prevent mis-/excessive use or tool making, but corrupted over the years to just be cruel.
I know prisoners can be extremely resourceful, but I really wanna see what kind tools someone can make with what is probably 1 ply TP.
It can be used to assist in removing water from the bowl of certain toilets. In those facilities, inmates can use the toilet pipe network to communicate.
Large amounts of soaked toilet paper can be used as large spitball projectiles, thrown at guards as a momentary distraction to allow for a follow-up attack or other capitalization on the distraction.
Some use it to cover up lights or windows, sometimes mixing with Vaseline to produce a wick for cooking food, clogging plumbing in the cell to cause a flood, and even arts and crafts purposes.
For all those reasons above, plus making cigarette paraphernalia, the toilet paper itself becomes a jail commodity or even currency.
It is a jailhouse resource, and a valuable one.
A compressed, sharpened tp stake is still a stake.
The MythBusters made rope out of it. I’m not sure it would actually help her do anything though since she has like work release and shit.
Toilet paper that doesnt suck
you can make Vodka from TP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-mWK_kcZMs