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Fellow inmates. inman got the message in no uncertain terms. >> apparently another inmate or two went into his cell and put some knots on his head and said dont be giving us anymore needles in 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 d...

Electric 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 not recognize an opportunity. >> right now, if you ...

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 stuff, because i was going through some stuff at that time. >> go to almost any prison in america ...

Inmates who was yelling at schreiber during our interview. ironically, gill has already served two years for sexual assault and is now back on a parole violation. 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.ç he was a piece of [ bleep ]. thats crazy. whats that ...

>> 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. e 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 gotten to...

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 not to recognize an opportunity. >> right now, if you get caught tattooing, you run the risk of getting in trouble. its not as clean as it could be. its a highly sterilized process on the streets. all the shops and stuff, its very clinical. i...

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 dn0 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 appl...

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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 mcan 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 and ink that are often confiscated...

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 is, unburned carbon. put it underneath a desk or in your locker box or something. >> then you put that in your body. >> oh, yeah. >> does it pose any health risks? >> yeah, of course. of course. but so doe...