

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.





So, just how much paint do you have to drink before they let you graduate from journalism school?