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A lot of times youll see them tie a kite or letter to the end of it. thats the way they communicate. >> the packages tied to the fish lines are sometimes called cadillacs. and hard as they try, correctional staff can rarely keep up with them. >> 99% of the time, youre not going to get out there and catch it because, you know, theyre looking out for each other. but well go up and tell us to give us the cadillacs. if they wont, well cuff them up, shake them up, go in, take the cadillac. then theyl...

I dry that one real quick with a pen. thats like an hour and a half right there. ill do that for five bucks, six, seven bucks, something like that. i could do much better than this. its just people dont want to pay, you know what i mean? so the lowest prices ill give them, ill give them low quality. not that im a [ bleep ] but, you know, you get what you pay for in here. >> but tattooing is strictly against prison rules. >> tattooing is always a big deal at prisons. the inmates use it as a way t...

Assault and is now back on a parole violation. but hes won allies in segregation by carrying out other crimes in prison including some against sex offenders. >> a lot of write-ups, tattooing, theft, unauthorized possession and assault. >> why? >> to fit in. i dont know. >> theft? >> to earn respect. theft. i took someones tv. he was a piece of [ bleep ]. thats crazy. whats that noise? >> yeah, im curious too. >> our interview is cut short as massive amounts of water cascade into the cell block f...

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That looks similar to the motors that are in some of the air fresheners that are hung up in some of the offices. an inmate worker probably was in that area cleaning and smuggled it into the back and made a tattoo gun out of it. its important that we find this stuff because its dangerous. its a sharp instrument in a cell. it can spread incommunicable diseases, hepatitis. ♪ please just give me a chance ♪ listen to what ive got to say ♪ >> garrett says hes known for two things in jail -- his ...

Number of improvised tattoo guns. >> this one right here is pretty ingenuous. this appears to be a staple run through the head of an ink pen and its attached to a motor. that looks similar to the motors that are in some of the air fresheners that are hung up in some of the offices. an inmate worker probably was in that area cleaning and smuggled it into the back and made a tattoo gun out of it. its important that we find this stuff because its dangerous. its a sharp instrument in a cell. it can ...

I dont -- i dont mind it, though. >> i say i got too good of a heart, but nick gets it done. some people, i think, im like, you know, hes a good guy, just let him go with that. but nick likes to charge everybody for everything. no matter what it is. something simple, give me a snack. sometimes i dont mind doing favors. but nicks good about it, though. were going to go broke if we dont -- dont charge for everything. >> got to look out for me. >> got to make money. >> in the end, its jail, so its ...

Inmate tattoo on his wrist. since tattooing violates jail rules, bernard is confined to a disciplinary cell he now shares with lewis pizzi. >> i wanted to represent bronze star or a general star to symbolize the military, because i know a lot of the guys that had passed away had gotten bronze stars, medals of valor, quite a few got purple hearts before they even got killed, so i wanted to go along those lines. and ill probably get a tattoo of a purple heart later on down the road. >> bernard say...

>> we used to always joke if we were to ever accidentally leave a camera in prison overnight, that when we came back in the morning, it would be 15 tattoo guns. >> before being sent to the hole for practicing his craft, roger bosheres was a prolific tattoo artist at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. he feels punishing tattoo artists is to not recognize an opportunity. >> right now, if you get caught tattooing, you run the risk of getting in trouble. plus, i mean, its not as clean a...

Algire, himself. >> i do my whole face, my left arm, my legs, my stomach. >> how do you deal with the pain? >> when you do it yourself, its not near as bad. >> in the prison system, we do not authorize or condone tattooing. but the inmates are very creative. they come up with methods to do it. >> its a serious enough violation that it can land an inmate in the hole for months. >> i just did 14 months in the hole. >> why? >> for tattooing. >> prison tattoos are applied with crude but ingenious ho...