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>> 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, chess pieces. anything that doesnt burn complete. unburned carbon, put it underneath a desk or in your locker box or something. >> then you put that in your body. >> oh, yeah. >> ever pose any health risks? >> of course, of course, but so does homosexual...

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 not to recognize an opportunity. >> right now, if you get caught tattooin...

To drive this. >> spin the needle and it will go back and forth. bzzz. >> 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 that punishing tattoo artists is to not recognize an opportunity. >> right now, if you get caught tattooing...

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 applied...

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 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 ...

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, is tattoo their body up. >> tattooings cool. its a fun thing to do. >> some of them dont even 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. >...

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 did 14 months in the hole. >> why? >> for tattooing. >> prison t...

Another illegal, yet very common practice behind bars. tattooing. >> mines art work. you know what i mean? i did this myself. >> where? >> in a cell like this. >> how? >> how? see this cassette player? i ripped the motor out of it, and i attach a tube to it with the needle, spin the needle back and forth. and i make the ink. burn plastic or baby oil, and the soot will go up. i collect the soot and mix it with shampoo to make a thick black ink. >> tattooing in prison is illegal and poses a variet...

That i probably said or did a little bit later. it just kind of weeds them out. >> yeah, dude, i think we did it. i think its where i needed to be. as long as youre happy with it. >> yeah. >> all right. >> once you start nearing the end of your tattooing and you realize that its going to be over, people start thinking of other tattoos to get. like i said, this crossed my mind. but i dont see that happening. well, maybe. >> two weeks later, the heavy metal surgeon moments away from performing hea...

They can get that final tattoo that somehow gives them some peace with themselves. but for a lot, its a never-ending process. and if they dont come to some self-realization or some self-peace, then they have to move on. and from tattooing, you go on to branding and from branding you go on to putting implants in your skull and in your skin, and then from there it can really start to escalate into uncontrollable body modification. >> in fact, meg is planning to take her modification further. today...