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Since tattooing violates jail rules, bernard is confined to a disciplinary cell he now shares with lewis pizzi. >> i wanted it to represent a 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 he 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 says he chose the star to ho...

Direction of the bullet. why police stopped ford no narrative from the officers and no witness statements. all the type of information that would allow one to determine if this was a justified use of deadly force. this is graphic, but what youre about to see is as detailed as the autopsy gets. ford took three shots including one to the back, so close that gun left the muzzle imprint on the skin. its called tattooing but the autopsy withheld those photos that would allow experts to determine wher...

Are always inmates willing to pay for new tattoos and others willing to risk punishment to provide them. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 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 s...

>> out of all these, i get away with it more than i get caught, thats for sure. >> samsons tattoo write-ups have cost him more than 200 days in earned good time. 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 respec...

The problem is, they are surrounded by people who arent very trust worthy. here is the dilemma. you have to make friends for protection, but they can be the friends that end up killing you. >> finding true friendship in prison might be a dicey proposition. at the spring creek correctional center in alaska, we found cell meats that seemed more like brothers than inmates at a maximum penitentiary. [ bleep ] >> when we met richard evans and roger bosheers, the high-spirited duo reunited as cell mat...

Trail blazers to targets among fellow inmates. inman got the message in no uncertain terms. >> 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 u...

Destroying property and making threats and tattooing. >> assault to avoid a issue or me getting cuffed up and taken to segregation or causing a security issue and everybody getting caught down and catching a write-up over it, i choose to stay in my cell. take one whole sausage, slice it up like he has, long ways and you make quarters out of them and you cut that completely in half. sometimes ill put honey on the sausage and put the cheese over the top of it and then cook it in a microwave for a ...

Are very gifted. >> thats true. gifted babies are special. >> tattooing babies should be okay. >> maybe. like in case lost, please call this number. >> if you have like a baby boy you tattoo ha-ha-ha on the top of its head and then long after you are dead and he goes bald, thats when he will see it. >> what about taxydermy for your pet after he dies? >> it is dead at that point. it wont feel the pain. >> and then you can still pet it. >> thats true. >> save us. we should have started with the pe...

In addition there was a woman who was piercing kittens ears to make them look goth and then putting them on the internet. then we need lawmakers spend time, waste time making laws to prevent this behavior. >> crazy. >> i think it is crazy. >> i dont know. nick, you seem angry or perhaps just be fud delled -- befuddled. >> i am confused. does it happen enough that it is a thing? >> in my neighborhood there are 50,000, 60,000 roving bands of tattooed dogs. sometimes they surround me and call my na...

While. 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 ...