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Something heavy that they tie on the end of it that they can throw from one cell from the top 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 ...

Business network. thank you. jenna: right now new details on operation fast and furious. the botched government program tracking guns south of the border. turns out, the feds had a big-time criminal in their possession but let him go apparently. what happened there? were going to break down that story for you. also a high-tech twist on an old art for. got a phone? got a tattoo? jon will be answering that question after the break. the two will come together. tattooing and your cell phone. well ...

Are bein being used to simulate a nipple. jon: you have some concerns especially when it comes to the safety of the people doing the tattooing. >> reporter: they are not that well regulated. they are licensed butt fda doesnt get involved. you go into a place, there are things you want to look for. number one does a guy wear gloves? if he doesnt there is a problem. is he using disposable equipment? they try to reuse the dye and needles. does he washdown the table, maybe he does, maybe he doesnt. ...

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 disciplinary write-ups. one tattoo motor. belonging to inmate sampson. one radio, one medical syringe with needle. one bottle of ink. tattoo needle. contraband. one spring being altered into a...

>> out of all these, i get away with it more than i get caught, thats for sure. >> his tattoo write-ups have cost him more than 200 days in earned good time, but he says the extra time in prison is worth it. >> any time i have 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...

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 dont be giving us anymore heat 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 ...

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 did 14 months in the hole. >> why? >> for tattooing. >> prison tattoos are appli...

>> 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 not to recognize an opportunity. >> right now, if you get caught tattooing, you run the risk of ge...

Close doors in regards to where we can house them. it does create problems because the general population offenders try to assault the sex offenders because they dont want them housed around them. >> theyre going to put him around me in the yard, hes going to get smashed, as simple as that. >> child molester! >> michael is one of the ad seg 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 viola...

I dry that one real quick with a pen. thats like an hour and a half right there. ill do that for five bucks, six, seven bucks, something like that. i could do much better than this. its just people dont want to pay, you know what i mean? so the lowest prices ill give them, ill give them low quality. not that im a [ bleep ] but, you know, you get what you pay for in here. >> but tattooing is strictly against prison rules. >> tattooing is always a big deal at prisons. the inmates use it as a way t...