Prison Tattoos | Full Documentary

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from life experiences or what I've been through from head to toe. Prison tattoos can literally cover every inch of skin. I was transferred to a different prison, so a person made this Canadian person who long considered the outsider mark on outlaw tattoos to have special meaning for inmates. My body is new and has a history that can last for days, but it is actually tattooed behind it. bars means breaking the law tattooing is not allowed in prison due to the risk of infection tattooing and in US prisons it is easy this prohibited status means no inks or professional equipment are allowed, resulting in a unique style of single needle tattoo known as black and gray.

The black and gray tattoo emerged simply based on the limits of technology. They did not have access to multiple needles. They didn't have access to real tattoo needles. In an average tattoo shop, artists use sophisticated coil or rotary machines. Precision coil. The devices can cost up to $700 each and our intricately crafted tattoo machine is basically made up of Carbon Springs, Compass Copper Pieces, Front Straps, Rubber Bands, basically what you do is plug it into a source. power, so when the electricity pushes it down, the magnetic part pushes. make a backup depending on what you are doing, use different groups of needles depending on this to get a summary of a tattoo machine, but the components of a tattoo machine are considered contraband, how do you manage to create works of such incredible art on your skin?

Inmates behind bars can do almost anything they want. It's fascinating what they come up with. The ingenuity begins with building a makeshift tattoo machine using anything the inmates can get their hands on, so with almost every tattoo machine in the prison. What I have ever seen or done consists of a normal pen and inside there is a pillar that is removed convicted of assault. David Chance, 27, is an accomplished prison-style tattoo artist who is revealing his techniques on camera. what I do is I make a needle mutter with this and this is the barrel this is where the needles go in it comes out upwards this on the guitar string it's used as a needle it will pierce the skin and deliver the ink you use what you've been there I mean we're limited, we're allowed CD players or beautiful instruments, so those are two things you need to make a prison tattoo machine.

Driving the tattoo machine is a small motor and this is just a basic CD motor. player a tape player a stereo anything we can get there are motors and anything the guitar string is sharpened with sandpaper and tested to see if it pierces the hard layer of skin David then makes a camp a record rotary with the pens In tune, this is going to be the connection between the motor and the joint, so I'm going to heat up a little piece of guitar string and stick a needle in there, which is where it's going to rest and when I turn the needles.

The holder is then connected to the motor and the sharp needle is inserted into the holder to power the tattoo machine. It comes courtesy of a plug adapted for the battery. It's right in your hand, a super small little tattoo machine that you can do. I have no peace with this because prison tattoo guns only have one meal instead of multiple nice and professional machines to make a

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back piece could take weeks but before you start you have another test that will test your wits making the ink Meghan. The ink was interesting, it was definitely dirty, Thirty-three year old Total Grace began tattooing behind bars during her first prison sentence at just 18 years old.

He becomes a master at making his own people, but the process generates dangerous fumes. Fortunately, they sold fans in prison, so I. I would arrive at I have empty tuna. Can I fill it with baby oil? I cut a hole in the center of the lid and then I get like a new mop thread and I stick it in and I like an old style. Wick, throw in some baby flame. I could do it and it would smoke like crazy black soot and we just grabbed our lunch bags. You don't get a brown bag every day for lunch; just put it in, fold it nice and neat over it and it burns. for six hours and when you're done, man, you cut that paper and you have piles like that and then we just mix it with one cap of vo5 and like five caps, a little bit of water and a little bit of ink.

I'm not healthy. it's for you, but I have it all on me and I'm the petroleum based product to use because they ignite easily and burn for a long period of time. The reason the shampoo is there is as a binding agent for this suit, but there is more than one. way of making ink and each artist has their special way, my favorite was the chess pieces, you take the chess pieces, you burn them and the things that go up in the air, you collect them on a piece of paper, you just scrape them off and then you add them. water or some people use the newspaper you know because some people said there was more carbon in the paper so the ink would be black because homemade ink is made from petroleum and it only comes in black that's why all these entities are black or gray. with the whole meeting that's all you have is black and then shades of black with the tattoo machine made in prison and the homemade cake the inmate is ready to start the engine feelings difficult element elitism in process if you don't have that craft and don't You can get that ink right, you can't get those mixes, it's going to be a tough road, you know, when David decided he wanted to be a prison tattoo artist, he didn't dare start with human skin.

He was making mugs, oh he was just making mugs. in time passing, time in time, his mugs were noticed by his cellmate, time convinced me, he's like, buddy, he was like, I've seen your mugs, buddy, I've seen the engravings, I've seen all those things you need. To do it, one day I got bored and sure enough, I ended up tattooing another guy. He was just obsessed ever since I ended up in prison for six years for arson. Ryan Lewis learned to tattoo using his cone skin as a campus. Yes, in fact, touching me. chest, one of my friends did one side of my chest and I ended up doing the rest.

He really was probably dying for a few hours and I did it, I think, over the course of a week and it was really complex through a lot of things. of line work and from the first line I thought: what am I doing to myself? Learning the craft requires years of experience, something Josh Hagen didn't have when his cellmate convinced him to try tattooing. At that time, he had even thought about tattooing me. He just drew a lot, he was like, Hey Johnny, bro, for a couple of days, I was like, no, no, I'm not really into that, you know, so he finally convinced me to tattoo him and it took him like three months. heal my search. guy and it just ruins the problem according to convicted armed robber Derek Sanders, fellows who decide to get tattoos should first check the artist as a master of their equipment and their craft some people are good some people are bad some people are just starting out you know, They're just testing the waters, but basically what I did before I got the tattoos was watch other people, you know, watch them perform, there's no other people and I did it, I tried it, the Citizen who I was, will shoot through my tattoo , but even when he nailed the team. and the crown there are other obstacles waiting in the world of prison tattoos the little known world of prison tattoos is a subculture of its own, some designs are art for art's sake, but others are symbols that can have a life or death meaning.

Getting tattooed without understanding the hidden language of prison tattoos is a clear health risk, so if a person wants a tattoo he better be very sure that he won't offend anyone. Richard Lipton is a thirty-year law enforcement veteran serving throughout most of the United States. violent prisons, he says, prison gangs enforce many of the rules behind bars, including those related to tattoos, they are white power gangs, black nuclear games and you are Hispanic and Asian gangs, gangs are very, very prevalent , very, very dangerous if you are in a game. you get the gang tattoo then you have risen within that prison system it is a sign of respect that you now wear their tattoo in some prisons it is estimated that 60% of tattoos are gang related they markleham we are so protected but we are also a objective I got my tattoos in prison.

XIV x4 were made from North Asia. The Norteños are a Hispanic gang from Northern California. They are gangsters times 15, which means the 14th letter of the alphabet. The sworn enemies of Norteños are their Sureños or the prison gang of Sureños who wear the tattoo. sir, Spanish for the south, if there are a lot of southerners out there, call me and stuff like that. I'm trying to kill myself for that gang. Tattoos can be as simple as a series of numbers. Michael Torres' tattoo 916 is the area code where he grew up. Northern California, but may also show affiliation to Norteño prison gangs.

People from the opposite gang. You know, gang members in general know what it is, they see what it is and they can move on. That, in addition to showing gang tattoos, can also convey the crimes committed. In the name of gangs, one of the most common examples is the tear. The Tears I Have are most commonly known, as you know, for murders or attempted murders. A tear can mean different things depending on which prison you are in. on the left, they can be assistance issues for me, you could represent a loved one and our living tear can that symbolizes in may kill to drop the children again once the moon sings, sell to people, attach them where they can have a great one, maybe they have a tombstone. and those basically represent the people who have killed some prison gangs.

Upcoming tattoos can represent the kiss of death, which means using three dots. You can stand on your feet in the path of my well. That indicates a history of incarceration and they fit them. getting a spider web tattoo, each strand can represent a year of prisoner sentence, other tattoos that can indicate prison time, the hour on the hour, no hands to indicate a long stretch and the comedy and tragedy mask, smile now cry later laugh now cry later tattoos, which the emoji represents, you can't really do anything about situations so laugh your ass off, you can cry about it later for white gang members.

Racist symbols such as swastikas or SS screws can also be a sign that the user has committed a hack on the screens. where you are at what you've done basically your hierarchy while you're locked up now when you get tattoos it's mainly that you know violence Carl Grace, 33, knows from experience that he earned tattoos being a white gang enforcer at some job there is a guy from my area, I didn't, I wasn't up to lip, you know white boy standards, so I smashed him in the yard and went to the hall for three months when he came out of the Hole Carl continued burning tattoos and I, when someone who came to art and needed a geek, I said like this, I'll do it, I'll get it, you know, I have a huge crucified skinhead on my side that I earned. like talents and business in art which he was quite proud of at the time Paul says most of these tattoos are not obtained through gangs but from gang violence this guy is in bad shape you have to deal with him and someone has What to do is mainly like internal cleansing all the time, that's how tattoos are done, I mean, that's how you're supposed to do it, not everyone knows the secret code of tattoo meanings and to break it, there were penalties. that the person has not earned. the tattoos he has probably are, and yet, aren't they, Lee?

You know, once a guy thought thatI would do a white power tattoo, I hope he wasn't a member of that gang, well, they came up to him with a knife and said. Either you cut your arm off right now or we're going to cut it off and the inmates weren't cutting it off according to David Chance. Punishment can also fall on whoever created the undeserved tattoo. They fall on the artist. Well, who did that? Where did he do that? When did you deserve that attachment? You know, I turned it down to you like all the races like swastikas and bolts and stuff like that because you gotta earn that stuff and then get in trouble if I'm just going through it while gang affiliation guides the truths of some tattoos behind bars, an influence Equally strong is race, each nationality leaning more towards a heritage like the whites, you got them, more towards the Aryans, more medieval, like the Mexicans, you got them.

Aztecs of those things and you have the blacks, they do the movements for the rights of the blacks and things like that. White prisoners like Carl Grace Baby. sales targets want death, not especially the white guy, it's that this will be tailored, like they're crazy. Ryan Lewis has Native American heritage that is reflected in his prison ink. It's my way, you know, it's a band from our tribe, it's like. It's a basket design and an oak leaf that's pretty central. I have a black elk. It was like a native prophet telling you, you know the people, the Lakota, to go back to their old ways to relearn their old ways and teach them. children in this way the inmate's tattoos can also be personal like an autobiography stuck in the skin the demon here that is chained to the wall represents being locked up or chained to your addiction, you know, so drugs, mathematics were always my weakness, prison is not I can't tell us about struggles in the past or dreams for the future.

My dad was an iron rider and in his youth he had always written Harley's so I wanted to buy a Harley and I figure if I get a tattoo it means that then I'll have to get one when I go out sometimes your daddy chews toys will refer to the life you have behind you will sometimes refer to the life you want to reach on the outside sometimes it only refers to the prison life you lead here, but what drives anyone to get a lot of tattoos on their face. America's prisons are home to a secret tattoo culture that flourishes despite being in it, and some inmates take prison ink to the extreme. your entire body, even your face, the face is the most public part of the human body, the face is the way we present ourselves to the world, so the prisoner with the tattoo on his face says fu, the convicted murderer from Utah , Kurtis Algiers.

Prison tattoos say much more. In addition to Algiers killing a corrections officer and his mugshot being called the face of hate due to its neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbolism, as well as swastikas and iron crosses, he has more overlaid indicators of his extremism, such as 88, which because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet and means Heil Hitler on his cheeks. has the belt, not a newer symbol of three interlocking triangles that shows a willingness to die for a cause. Latin American gang members are also known to commonly wear facial tattoos to increase their intimidating appearance this inmate shows the roman numerals and the neck you know they just want to look crazy you know they want to look crazy, but sometimes a facial tattoo can also have a more personal residence a Centro left his heroin addiction behind bars something he remembers every time he looks in the mirror and see his gin tattoo the fish represents, you know, serenity or calm, you know, and the dots represent my mind, my body and my soul, you know, I just had to take control of all that before knowing that my goal was probation, whether a name, a disease for his end, he believes that his gang because of his own history, he is taking it big. risk when getting tattooed behind bars the tattoo kit the tattoo gun is contraband like anything else and is against prison rules the guards will confiscate a contraband and then defend us at some point in what is called discipline he the nature calls to the hole I went to the hole like four or five times my mentality was kind of like I'm going to do what I want and if you don't like it I don't care Judge Hagan, Carl Grace's cellmate, his top swing back twice by the prison guards, slapped him with an extra 60 days on his Seven years more than that, confiscation of his tattoo machine, yeah the thing is you get this nice little setup that you spent a lot of time trying to put together and they take it away from you and now you have to go out to the garden. and try to get new pieces to put this back together and now like a pain in the ass your whole situation is ruined you lose all your equipment he can only do so much to keep tattooing behind bars his buddies have to find a place where to hide his kids we had two electrical outlets, you know, they were screwed to the wall and my cell phone had access to the tool that we could loosen these bolts and their box in this perfect compartment where you can hide tattoo machines and weapons, you name it, it's hidden .

The same way you would hide a prison weapon or narcotics inside mattresses between cracks in the wall inside a toilet because there are a thousand places to hide it. I had a magnet on the back of mine so I threw it under the bunk bed and it is and it's hidden, it doesn't recoil like I'm watching TV, most prison tattoos are done in the cells which means While the inmates need a timely process, you have a point man who will keep an eye on you. Make sure they don't approach you, but with harsh penalties for getting caught tattooing, making being a prison tattoo artist worth the risk.

The first answer to that question is the status through prison as a tattoo artist definitely gives you a lot more merit. a lot of people want to be your friend tattoo with the guy who did the best job there, it was an honor being a tattoo artist not only increases your social standing in the place but allows you to become a major player in the underground prison. If my lady is like that, yes, then everyone did the little job well, that's Monday, you want to get fat, go see my drawing and you come to see me, that's how they distinguished me if it was a direct business transaction, whatever that they can get from store food. and cosmetics, someone needs to get to you, yeah, I just told me you know Chara, get coffee six dollars right there and tattoo it for 20 minutes, that's good, if you can smoke, you can get two back, they give you tobacco, a few and a few adult diapers.

You can get high, but if an inmate wants to enjoy the loot and status of being a prison tattoo artist and stay alive, he has to learn to respect the secret codes of conduct, codes that are specific to each prison, in jails or prisons there are written rules. that you can't escape, don't fight, don't swear and that kind of thing, but there are many unwritten rules, and they are also equally important for your safety and well-being in the ASA Crow Prison, the unwritten rules prohibited tattooing on certain breeds and gangs. the lines definitely couldn't tattoo black people, every death sentence couldn't tattoo northerners, it's a death sentence too, I did tons of any gang you can imagine from Southern California, from Bakersfield on down, I did all the gangs, so I'll add all these people. in my cell, you know, murders, kidnappers, straight up drug dealers, you name it, I tattooed them all, which is where the train rides for standards and for purity of artistic expression, but some artists will rise a little bit for above the rest in the most vulnerable and deadly part of America's prisons. -the known and illegal subculture is a menace black and gray tension my tattoos were done with improvised weapons motorists would be taken from radios and cassette players but sometimes the prison tattoo artist can't get the equipment he needs to build a tattoo machine impromptu tattoo it's time to go back to basics it is a long form of tattooing that involves a sharp point to pierce the skin, once all tattoos behind bars were done this way, today it is a method that is used most often in county jails where contraband materials are harder to obtain, sometimes you couldn't get a machine you couldn't get any, you grabbed a little piece of metal sewing needle, whatever you could, you just you pushed with your hand, you just push that ink, you can't get any kind of depth or anything like that with the stick and the poke, but I mean you. you can hit the ink and skin with a nail if you wanted to jail tattoo artist Mark Martin used clips or staples needles you get them and pay for it you put on your bra you can see them on the floor that can be a guard point the food It's the method in some of the best prison tattoo artists started their career hitting people considered the Godfather prison style breading the grid of making pretty big tattoos just half-poking and all my friends, you know, I said, you know, we have a chance.

At least if I'm researching weddings properly, some gang kids are weak. The prison-style tattoo artist starts out in the Santa Maria district in the 1960s, when he joins his neighborhood gang, the Sound Boy. I guess I grew up a little confused, worried, you have a lot. of trouble getting into trouble changes Freddie's life forever in juvenile court meets a Mexican kid covered in tattoos I was like you know what's tattooed you know what this means and I was obsessed with this guy I remember him telling me yeah, you understand a needle and thread, you know, you dip it in ink, whatever you can, you can even use it, a girl's mascara, you know, so I went out and bought my older sister's mascara and that night it was on my, I put together his little shop and my bed with a flashlight and I hadn't touched this little thing in my hand as Freddy grows up his gang crimes become more serious he finds himself in a juvenile prison and begins to forge his own tattoo style rejecting the tattoos of popular colors in tattoo shops first of all we thought that the color tattoos were cartoonish, you know, they buy tattoos and the big blinds and they had a simple design.

He thought it was more realistic if you had thinner lines and less visible lines and it was shades of gray, you know, so what we were trying to achieve was like a black and white photograph, so the shadows and the fine lines were a big deal for us and that's what the black and gray behind bars is all about. Freddie realizes the limitations of prison-style machines. Straight lines are impossible because the needle I emerged. with just some match paper to go over and then tape it around the side of the machine and hold the needle steady so our line work came out much better and straighter and then for shading I would take it off because it was nice to have. the needle wobbles because we just did circular motions, you know, done, also experiment with the ink production to give it a range of black and gray tones.

Another thing we did was take out the ink and evaporate the water and that would make you blacker. I know thicker ink and also adding a little bit of baby oil or our water to the ink to make it lighter like a lighter gray, so we came up with different shades of gray. The results of Freddy's innovations are classic Hispanic images such as Charter Girl. and the Virgin of Guadalupe then in 1976 Freddy gets a tattoo that will become a classic Chicano smile now Riley I saw a small advertisement for an acting workshop and you know there were the faces of comedy and tragedy well, my favorite song at that time was smile now cry later was everyone's old song and when I saw them I immediately thought of smile now cry later behind bars Freddie builds a reputation as a prison tattoo master his rise to become the godfather of prison style will be seen marred by the tragedy of former Chicano gang member Freddy Negrete is a pioneer of black and gray tattooing, the secret to his success, learning to tattoo behind bars, you know, prisons are like the meeting place of minds, you know, and a lot culture and style came from prison trapped in the Chicano gang Freddie first.

He begins tattooing in the Youth Authority prison in the '70s using handmade tattoo machines and self-produced ink. He devised a black and gray phone line law that defines prison style to this day, but what he never expected was that prison style tattoos could provide him with a lucrative career on the outside and when I was finally released and started tattooing, You know, outside my apartment, I found a huge market, you know, right there and voila, I cashed in that $15 or a big tattoo, so I had a huge clientele in the '70s and '80s. old giving general acceptance Freddie starts to work at the East Los Angeles tattoo shop, GoodTime Charlie's.

I knew all the bad guys from all the games all over town and I was respected by them, so as soon as I started at Good Time Charlie's, you know it was the late 1990s, tattooing is a booming industry that It's becoming a tit-for-tat with thousands of stores across the country, many new customers who want to bring the prestige of an artist who learns to tattoo behind bars you know I'm from prison I'm from a street gang, you know, and Seeing him become this global phenomenon, like a famous tattoo artist, Freddie rises to the top of belief, but a personal tragedy that brings and brings down my son Lorenzo, you know he passed away, he was actually shot, you know he was murdered and it was devastating.

For me, distraught, Freddie falls into drug addiction and in 2004 he is back behind bars. You know, I enjoyed this. I love tattooing. I made a living from it all these years. You know, but now he was back in prison. Know? using this. small homemade machine and tattoos for soup locked up desperation comes until the day Freddie decides to change his life in honor of his son who died if you could see me how I would want to see myself as a loser and on drugs dying in prison, you know ? Or would you want to see me succeed?

You know, Freddie beats drugs and is released in 2006 and commemorates the son he lost with a tattoo of his nickname Frosty. I said: I've really learned to deal with his debt to live on. with that, I remember him, I love him now, working at the Mark Mahoney Shamrock Tattoo Parlor in Los Angeles. Freddie's clientele includes Hollywood actors and rock stars and he has passed on the skill of tattooing to his another son, Isaac, the first touch on my bed, the big porch, me and I smile. about her later on my trip, I say when he hasn't been right, I told him: it's still me, just this little one, but people when I meet them from other countries and stuff and they say, oh, you know, one of the parents of blacks. and gray and stuff and I like it and just you know, old gangster, that's all, you know, just doing my thing that I learned in prison, Freddie has taken a bath now, other prison tattoo artists are learning that all those years spent ​Tattooing behind bars can give these types of benefits. of influence, many people include me in the tattoo industry when the prison tattoo is that David Chance was released, he found it ready for the market because of his experience in central California.

I walked into a shop within six months of leaving and now I'm in one of the best shops on the Central Coast and it's great, meanwhile former Phoenix prison tattoo artist Sam H has also found demand for his skills despite becoming a respected black and gray tattoo artist.he still uses a gun that looks like the money you had in prison and in prison he uses a machine that is basically a rotary tattoo machine and the machines that most tattoo artists They use now is a coil machine, but I still use a rotary tattoo machine which is basically a glorified machine. prison machine and I can do things with this machine that I can do with the prison machine, except 100 times better.

I just feel like they are my roots. I started with a homemade machine with a coil motor, guitar string, you know, dipped mint and a little pelican and still. I use today, but while prison tattoos are a springboard to success for some, in other cases they are quite the opposite. Prison tattoos forged in adversity, these marks of identity can have a dark side, especially when applied against a 2006 inmate, a convicted child killer. in an Indiana prison he was tattooed with food the words Katie's revenge were tattooed on his forehead by another inmate Katie was the name of his ten year old victim prisons and jails very, very dangerous places with some very, very dangerous individuals residing in them, but there are Other dangers in this world of prison tattoos that are less obvious but no less dangerous.

No one is sterilized while you're in prison, so you're at high risk for hepatitis, a staph infection. Even outside of prison, tattoos carry a risk of blood-borne diseases and infections, but among inmates, HIV infection rates are four times higher than in the general population and hepatitis C up to 10 times higher and nothing transmits blood-borne diseases better than a tattoo needle, but some colleagues say the risk can be minimized when I get tattooed every time. I tattooed someone new. I'd do a new setup on it because you know he wasn't that guy who says, "Let me pour bleach and tell us Van Dyke will clean it up and like use it on someone else because that's pretty gross, you know?" I don't care what people think, but bleach doesn't kill everything you know, so like every person I tattoo, I would have to do a new setup for them, locked up for 11 years.

Powell received many tattoos but always provided the needles. I put away my needles. I saw him clean the guns. I saved my own ink. I can't keep track of my stuff because you know it was a possibility that could happen, so I took those measures, not with me, but even if you avoid contamination. There are other disadvantages to getting prison ink and they start outside the prison doors. The streets of west Atlanta 25 years ago were the scene of bloody gang territory. They will call me complicated because they called me to photograph people. Powell's Art History. the life of crime is the skin of it I got involved in the streets at the age of 13.

I started gangbanging at the age of 15, back in 1984, in the late '80s. Powell is a high-ranking member of one of the most notorious gangs in Atlanta history. I refused control of the group from him. The southwest side of Atlanta attempted to take over the city. He was involved in many crimes between the cases I was involved in or high publicity cases in the early nineties. Hearts joined another gang called the Do or Die Mafia and the Winds. In prison we were basically robbing businesses and we robbed businesses and everything went wrong and one of my main flaws was a gunshot and that was the incident that sent me to prison for 11 and a half years like many inmates.

Martin gets the first tank from him behind bars and can't stop. I got my first tattoo and it was like an addiction, look what the guy did, it could be a 2008 with my team. I was waiting when they imprisoned me, so I got that tattoo, you know, as a symbol. to say okay, you know this is the reason why we and this has put me in a position of being imprisoned, we now release arts on a mission to prevent other children from following their path. I help one of the most notorious gangs in another story, I mentioned a few possible ones. and a lot of people died a lot of people are incarcerated one of his messages tattoos can be a first step towards a life of crime and incarceration how many did I think I could tattoo yeah I'm just uh I can't get attention okay doggie once you see my tattoos and ask questions.

I see it as a door or an opportunity to communicate with them. You don't understand them. It's a brand you have to use. It gives people the opportunity to stereotype you. It gives people the opportunity to deny art. He believes the stigma of having a tattoo can limit your opportunities, making crime a more attractive city and prison a more likely destination, and studies show a link between tattoos and crying after prison. Twice as many prisoners with tattoos are 40 percent more likely to be violently reinfected than those without. It pays well according to the study, yes the person with the tattoos who got out of prison is more likely to reoffend because their tattoo makes them less employable and less acceptable in society at large, but I would also say that once they started getting those tattoos in prison.

He was already saying that society doesn't love me, so I'm going to move on. All the effects I knew. Wilcher was recently released from prison after serving time for assault and probation violations. All but one of his tattoos that he got in prison were done by Bo on his chest of poor quality, oh. You know, my back is my left because I made it myself. Now Matt needs a job, but some employers don't want to hire ex-convicts, especially those with visible tattoos. I can wear a long sleeve shirt and they won't be seen on this news. capiche but Matt has a very visible tattoo on his left hand so they are going to remove it he comes to see Mark Martin Mark is a former prison tattoo artist who now has his own tattoo shop in Georgia.

He removes ex-inmates' tattoos for free, that's tough. It's enough when someone gets out of prison, people try to take them seriously, but then when you're on your cover with tattoos, I mean, it's even harder, it's hard to get a job, it's hard enough to do anything, the process It involves breaking up the tattooed area. of skin with a conventional tattoo machine is a bloody process after tearing up the area where you can really start to see the ink you put the information on top those things will burn off they are ink erasers and that will bring the particles to the Matt you will need between eight and twelve sessions, but if you're a former prison gang member, there are even more reasons to get tattoos.

Gang tattoos not only keep you from getting a job, they could also get you killed and my gang touches, my evil way of drugs, will attack Christmas in your gang. Your gang member Henry is getting his tattoos removed with a hippie laser and stuff like that. I'm trying to kill myself just for debating. I had a laser treatment on my body. It is faster than the tattoo that remains but it still hurts well for some prison tattoos a resource of repentance for others the secrets and risks of this hidden subculture are part of the attraction that would give me the opportunity to take my mind away from the prison and I was lucky enough to have something that was released before the morning to make the team is mastering subcultures, Hidden Cove prisons, a 2-lane PC that does not reveal its secrets, but is a flourishing art form .

Even in the most hostile environments and in a subculture that performed the ultimate act of escape by scaling prison walls, us little gangbangers, you know, even though people hated us so much for the bad things we did, we gave to the world beautiful tattoos and beautiful art.