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Aaron Hernandez is back in the news.

The former New England Patriots tight end has been found with a homemade knife in his prison cell at Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass., according to FOX25. The type of knife also is known as a "shank."

The report, which came out Friday, doesn't include when the knife was found, but it does say Hernandez was put in a "segregation unit" following the incident.

Hernandez was found guilty in April of first-degree murder in the June 2013 shooting of Odin Lloyd. He currently is serving a life sentence.

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