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Attach a pin to it with a needle. spin a needle on the can, go back and forth. and i make the ink. ill burn plastic and baby oil. soot will go up. ill collect the soot. mix it with shampoo until its thick, black ink. >> tattooing in prison is illegal and poses a variety of health risks. but weve met countless inmates who have gotten their ink both on the outside and inside. many tattoos represent gang affiliation and are documented by prison officials. most of the rest have a meaning all their o...

Magazines. 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 them to give us the cadillacs. if they wont, well cuff them up, shake them up, go in, take the cadilla...

Or is it foyer [pronounced foy-yay]? fast in the hallway. i feel like ive been here before. switch now and get the fastest wifi everywhere. comcast business. built for business. even though its prohibited, tattooing is common in every prison weve ever visited. but at the limon correctional facility in colorado we saw an example of tattooing that stopped our producers dead in their tracks. >> i was in the sewing factory one day walking amongst the men watching them work and looking for stories ...

But he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> the time ive lost by getting caught doing what im doing is well worth the sanity that i would have lost if i had just done what they said and walked the line. shut my mouth and went to my house and did nothing and just sat there and watched my tv. im more at ease with myself. i respect myself a lot more for having done what i want to do in here. thats my outlet, thats my escape. >> its always been fascinating to me how these guys manage to get...

Eleven. theres 11 in the last 10 years. >> 11 what? >> 11 convictions for tattooing. which aint bad. >> richard sampson is one of the more prolific tattoo artists at the limon correctional facility in colorado. he shared a handful of his disciplinary write-ups with us. >> one tattoo motor. connected to a razor belonging to inmate sampson. one radio, one medical syringe with needle. one bottle of ink. tattoo gun needle. one nuisance contraband. one spring being altered into a needle for tattoo gu...

>> apparently another inmate or two went into his cell and put some knots on his head and said dont be giving us anymore heat over here. we seen inman a day or two later, of course, he wont tell what happened or what it was over or anything like that, because thats a convict code. but we know what it was over. i got enough people out there telling me what it was over. >> and now things are about to heat up even more for inman as the prison disciplinary board takes up his case. >> hes been charge...

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 from the second tier. >> they ...

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 to make money. it causes us big pr...

Because they dont want them housed around them. >> theyre going to put him around me in the yard, hes going to get smashed, as simple as that. >> michael gill is one of the ad seg inmates who was yelling at schreiber during our interview. ironically, gill has already served two years for sexual 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, unaut...

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...