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>> 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...

>> 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...

>> 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 getting in trouble. its not as clean as it could be....

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 applied with crude but ingenious ho...

>> 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 getting in trouble. its not as clean as it could be....

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 year, just a bunch of evil, craze stay stuff. i was going through a bunch of stuff at that time. >> go to almost any prison in america and youll find an amazi...

From the skin surface when the trigger was pulled. she shows whats called stippling or tattooing, which is when the burned and burning gunpowder particles strike the skin surface and create little injuries. it also told me that the muzzle of that gun was relatively close, it was within a couple of feet away from her when that trigger was pulled. well, what were going to call this is intermediate range. that can be obviously crucially important in the overall case. all right. right lung. >> for a...

Ear. >> 5/16 inch parenthesis, horizontally. >> generally with wounds to the torso we do those how many inches above the heel and were using stable anatomic landmarks. >> the circular penetrating gunshot wound. >> the appearance of a gunshot wound can help dr. quarry estimate the distance where the gun was fired. >> contact wounds where the gun was held against the skin surface looks significantly different than from several feet away. >> its important physical evidence for police investigators ...

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 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 tatto...

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 needle for tattoo gun found on desk. which is my desk. alarm clock radio, e...