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Few things embody that particularly southern california latino street culture more than low riding. esteban is a photographer, chronicler of everything iconic at the crossroads of hip hop, design, tattooing, fashion, and low riding. >> they used to put sandbags in their trunks to make them lower and around the 70s they got popular. >> why these particular models? >> pretty much always been the late 50s all the way through the 60s and into the 70s and in the 80s they brought in the cadillacs and ...

American, filipino, vietnamese, thai, samoan, bangladeshi. everyone has left their mark, continues to shape the town, determines its character. k-town exists upside its latino neighbors and i guess its nature that both choe and choi identify very much with mexican street culture. few things embody that particularly southern california latino street culture more than low riding. esteban is a photographer, chronicler of everything iconic at the crossroads of hip hop, design, tattooing, fashion, an...

>> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. theres eleven in the last ten years. eleven 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. one tattoo motor. belonging to inmate sampson. one radio, one medical syringe with needle. one bottle of ink. tattoo needle. contraband. one spring being altered into a needle for ta...

Earned good time, but he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> any time i have 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 until here. thats my outlet, thats my escape. >> its always been fascinating to me how ...

Maybe -- >> 24 hours after? >> after. >> since you did that and then youre clean on that one and then we can probably get -- like 30 days or 30 to 90 days youll be sanctioned. >> thats cool. >> i enjoy what im doing. i enjoy helping people. it keeps my day busy. >> but peaches isnt the only game in town. davon lymon heads to level five to represent his friend felix lewis in his hearing about a tattoo charge. >> we have a hearing today. an inmate had a misconduct report for a -- for tattooing. he...

Talk to you in the office, so come on down. >> felix lewis, when he first got here, we had given him a urine test and he came up positive for thc. basically came to me, told me that he would participate in substance abuse if i suspended the sanctions on that report. so i gave him a break. i suspended the sanctions for 180 days of clear conduct. its my understanding now that he picked up a report on the weekend for tattooing. >> thats correct. >> at this point i want us to impose the sanctions fr...

Inmate? >> yes, davon lymon. >> do you need an interpreter to assist you in presenting your defense? >> si, no. no. >> do you wish to call anyone in this testimony as well that would not be accumulative this case? >> theres no witnesses. >> youve been charged with category 8, paragraph 30, tattooing and/or tattooing or paraphernalia. do you admit or deny it? >> i deny it. >> do you wish to present your version? >> my version, i was in the unit and i was called out. they told me that theyve recei...

Are feeling about this. i would note, john boehners sign-up isnt fake. as a member of congress, he is required to get covered through the insurance exchanges, losing his coverage through the benefits program. >> it was performance art, though. thats exactly what yesterday was. >> it was performance art, but the performance matters. you look right now. you have 4.5 million americans, eligible for medicaid, get it for free and not sign up. it matters how easy it is to sign up for these things. bec...

We found a pair of cell mates who seemed more like frat house brothers rather than inmates at a maximum security penitentiary. >> look at the nugget, dude. >> no [ bleep ]. >> when we met richard evans and richard boshears, the high-spirited duo had recently reunited as cell mates after boshears had recently been released. >> who are you tattooing on again? >> actually, got caught tattooing on this one right here. this is the one we got caught doing right here. we got ran up on while doing this ...

>> 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 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 d...