Body scan reveals shotgun shell inside prisoner

A body scan showing the shotgun shell (Morgan County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

A man being booked into an Alabama jail wound up at hospital rather than behind bars after a scan revealed a shotgun shell in his abdomen.

Prisoners entering the Morgan County Jail routinely undergo a body scan when being admitted, and a recent image showed what appeared to be a shell from a shotgun that had been swallowed, spokesperson Mike Swafford said.