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Tattoo studio. this is body tags. this is my heart and soul. >> hey. >> you ready? >> im ready. >> whats up? >> this is what i love doing. i love tattooing. i love the fact that, you know, 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 o...

>> 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 know what it was over. i got enough people out there telling me what it was over. >> and now things are about to heat up even more for inman as the prison disciplinary board takes up his case. >> hes been charge...

Prisons we visited is the existence of an underground tattoo market, whether used to identify themselves as members of a gang or deal with the 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 a...

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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 ...

>> 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 will go back and forth. >> we used to always joke if we were to ever accidental...

>> i will never forget the 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...

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 couple of my prison years, just a bunch of evil, crazy stay stuff. i was going through a bunch of...

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 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...

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...