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Dentists office? >> sure. you have to be careful with any exposure to blood or tattooing. you have to be careful. obviously, this is something that can be tested. you can look for antibodies. even if you have it, they can get a liver biopsy and find out whats going on. we have interfuren medications, but a lot of people end up with liver transplants. about a quarter of patients like this can recover on their own. the problem with hepatitis c is theres no vaccination. hepatitis a and b have vacci...

>> or needles. can you get it from the dentists office? >> sure. you have to be careful with any exposure to blood or tattooing. you have to be careful. obviously, this is something that can be tested. you can look for antibodies. even if you have it, they can get a liver biopsy and find out whats going on. we have interfewer medications. but a lot of people end up with liver transplants. about a quarter of patients like this can recover on their own. the problem with hepatitis c is theres no va...

>> but according to lieutenant jim fox, the attention they brought on the prisons illegal tattoo trade took them from 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 k...

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 followed him to prison. hes had doz...

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 problem...

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 problems just from the health standpoint because they spread diseases such as staph infections or hepatitis by tattooing. >> as a result, correctional staff keep a close eye on walker. >> my control officer called me down in the office and said there was something unusual going on in the cell in the second tier of b-pod. so i went up to that cell, and the two inmates th...

Near cairo. now back to "lockup." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. behind bars, tattooing is more than a favorite pastime, 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...

Moment that i first set eyes on curtis algire. its really quite shocking to see the ss lightning bolts, swastikas, nazi imagery, and with the tattoos all over his face, first time i saw him peeking out of that cell i was definitely intimidated. >> curtis algire and his cousin tony peak were covered head to toe in tattoos. many of which were applied by 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 ne...

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 homemade tat guns and ink that are often confiscated during cell searches. >> this here is several vials of ink and a homemade tattoo gun. >> they make their own tattoo guns out of electronic motors from portable radios or tape players. >> they get a motor, find a battery or electrical socket or something to drive this. >> spin the needle and it wil...

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 ...