In real life, I carry a gun. Hand to hand is just for if you get jumped, or you're in jail someplace. and even then, weapons can be arranged for. More so in prison than the jails. The jails are pretty barren of stuff to make weapons out of. Maybe a metal spoon, in some of the older, smaller places. You dont have a belt, nor a lock, but you can sometimes get used up batteries from the trustees, Put them in a sock, that's inside of another sock, maybe sneak in a pen. In the old days, the food trays were metal and could be used to slash the face/neck pretty good. You can sometimes get a razor blade to help you tear up a mattress cover, make strips braid it into a rope weapon, tie it to something heavy, like several paper back books, the pages stuck together with jelly or tootpaste. Depends upon how many snitches are in there with you and how often the guards shake down your cells. whether or not the trustees will hide your stuff while the guards search, etc. I never bothered with such stuff.