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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 flooded the tier. ...

Cadillacs, and hard as they try, correctional staff can rarely keep up with them. >> 99% of the time you are not going to catch it because they are looking out for each other. we will go up and tell them to give us the cadillacs, and if they want, well go in, shake them down, and take the cadillac. and then theyll have another one tomorrow. you know, that is where a lot of our sheets go. and you take one and they have another one the next day. >> at kern valley state prison in california, we met...

With shampoo to make a 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 own. >> what my trip is is physics. my tattoos represent it. on the back of my legs it says quantum physics. ive got an atom on my hand. i study what the ultimate nature of reali...

>> 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...

>> 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 did 14 months in the hole. >> why? >> for tattooing. >> prison tattoos are applied with crude but ingenious homemade tat guns a...

Players. >> they get a motor, find a battery or electrical socket or something to drive this. >> spin the needle and it will go back and forth. >> we used to always joke if we were to ever accidentally leave a camera in prison overnight, that when we came back in the morning, it would be 15 tattoo guns. >> before being sent to the hole for practicing his craft, roger bosheres was a prolific tattoo artist at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. he feels punishing tattoo artists is to n...

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 these guys manage to get tattoos in prison. not only the items they need to do the tattoos, but the fact that they can get away with doing tattoos. >> any small wire can be straightened out and made into a needle. you can get motors out of appliances, tape recorders, cameras. >> along with needles, tattooing can also be ...

Even though its prohibited, tattooing is common in every prison weve ever visited. but at the limon correctional facility in colorado we saw an example of tattooing that stopped our producers dead in their tracks. >> i was in the sewing factory one day walking amongst the men watching them work and looking for stories when david walked by and he looked at me, and i looked at him, and he grinned, and i looked at him again and i said, come here. i said, whats wrong with you? do you have pink eye? ...

>> and i see evidence of that on your arms. you know? and so what am i to think? >> im getting aimed at. im getting shook down more than anybody. im getting my money counted more than anybody. all of a sudden, ive been getting picked on. >> somebody who has suspended sanctions and somebody who wants to be able to visit with their family and enjoy their daughter, that person should be walking a straight line around here, and i dont see you doing that. i dont. and thats why im disappointed. i mean...

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 from the misconduct report. im -- i want to see the tattoos. >> come on in. >> so show me the tattoos. >> put your sleeves up a little higher. >> where its red? right there. >> so where its red? >> all these, you can feel theyre new. >> th...