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Then we can probably get a suspended sentence, 30 to 90 days suspended sanctions. >> 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 help represent his friend felix lewis in his hearing about a tattoo charge. >> whats up, stupid? >> we have a hearing today. an inmate picked up a misconduct report for tattooing. he had a fresh tattoo. >> this is a regularly scheduled disciplinary hear...

>> do you wish to call anyone whose testimony is relevant in this case? >> theres no witnesses. >> youve been charged with category 8, paragraph 30, tattooing and/or tattooing or paraphernalia. do you admit or deny the report? >> i deny it. >> do you wish to present your version of the incident or do you wish to remain silence? >> my version. i was in the unit and i was called out. they told me that theyve received information that i had received new tattoos. they asked me if that was true. i sa...

>> oh, man. all right, buddy. youre going to have to go back to the crate. >> painful? >> oh, not as painful as it was the first time. >> while sampson strives to be a pioneer in the world of prison tattoos, two other inmates we met at limon had taken the art to shocking dimensions. 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

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 made from everyday items. >> thats where usually they will burn soot, they will take paper and oil and burn it on the bottom. >> burn baby oil or hair oil, hair grease, styrofoam cups back in the day. styrofoam cups, chess pieces. anything that doesnt burn complete. thats what soot ...

Boredom of incarceration, there are always inmates willing to pay for new tattoos and others willing to risk punishment to provide them. >> 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 many disciplinary write ups with us. >> one tattoo motor. belonging t...

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>> 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.

>> 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 america and youll find an amazing assortment of tattoos. >> its gott...

Range to the bottom range. and a lot of times, you see mailbags and envelopes they can put letters in or magazines. and a lot of times, youll see them tie a kite or a letter to the end of it and 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 you are not going to catch it because they are looking out for each other. we will go up and tell them to give u...

Of it so they can throw from one cell from the top range to the bottom range. and a lot of times, you see mailbags and envelopes tied to them that they can put letters in or magazines. and a lot of times youll see them tie a kite or a letter to the end of it and 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 you are not going to get out there and catch...