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>> whats up? >> this is what i love doing. i love tattooing. i love the fact that, you know, we got our shop going, and it is what it is. >> tattooings like riding a bike. i mean, it comes back naturally. you know what im saying? ive been tattooing probably an average of three people a day, so im doing all right. bop! >> oh! [ laughs ] >> you know you got the lifetime warranty, too? >> i better have one. >> narrator: though voltz professional life is back on track, he still has some personal rel...

Me out. i started kicking the door. he started talking [ bleep ]. i started talking [ bleep ] back to him. >> what did he say? >> i dont know because i was talking over him. i just know that he was a bitch. thats what i told him, that he was a bitch [ bleep ]. >> with his recent setbacks, roca moreno faces six more months before leaving close management and having his visits restored. john smith has also been in confinement since being caught with possession of marijuana. >> whats been going on ...

Attack a pin to it with the needle. spin a needle on the can, go back and forth. ill make the ink. ill burn plastic and baby oil. soot will come 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...

They can put letters in and 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 us to give us the cadillacs. if they wont, well cuff them up, shake them u...

Feet and drug me in the living room and -- time-out. >> all right. >> moments later, he composed himself and continued his story. >> there was no questions, just he started screaming at me and said he was sick and [ bleep ] tired of me and tired of the [ bleep ] i was doing and the fists started coming and the boots, and grabbed me off the door by my hair, yanked me by my hair and flung me into the dining hall and started to beat the [ bleep ] out of me. >> lashbrooks troubled childhood has foll...

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 up even more for inman as the prison disciplinar...

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, 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 c...

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...

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 up even more for inman as the prison disciplinar...

Its a passion, if not an addiction in every prison we visited. >> thats the first thing they do when they come in here, tattoo their body up. >> tattooings cool. its a fun thing to do. >> some of them dont make a bit of sense but they have them on there, theyre covered. they all want them. >> ive got a couple years on a grave stone down here, a couple of my prison years, just a bunch of evil, crazy stay stuff. i was going through a bunch of stuff at that time. >> go to almost any prison in ameri...