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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 the regales. the most c...

Much with mexican street culture. few things embody that particularly southern california latino street culture more than low riding. esteban is a 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 50 this is through the 60s, and any 80s they brought in the cadillacs and rega...

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 ...

Cost him more than 200 days in earned good time, but he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> the same 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 alwa...

>> 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. connected to electric motor. one radio, one medical syringe with needle. one bottle of ink. tattoo needle. contraband. one spring being altered into a needle for ta...

Out because i was going to rec, i was supposed to go to rec. he said he wasnt going to talk 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 ...

Esteban is a 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 50 this is through the 60s, and any 80s they brought in the cadillacs and regals. the most classic well known car for low riding is probably the 64 impala. >> how many korean low riders are there? >> theres a few...

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 relationships that require attention. >> yeah, its my baby. >> narrator: alicia russ is the moth...

Lets get you out of here then. >> im feeling good -- good to be free. you know, get to go home, see my kids, get some money, you know, make love. yes! yeah, i mean, its hot as a mother[bleep] out here. you can tell i got locked up in the wintertime. >> narrator: brian voltz is spending more time outdoors, as well, now that hes qualified for the jails work-release program. >> im back to the streets. i got my swag back. i mean, it just makes you feel less captive, less like an animal. you know wha...

Thats perfect. im going home. yes. >> youre going home? >> some people, its like hereditary. they stay here. >> right here, sir. >> lewis, myself, the deputy warden, the captain, needs to 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 sancti...