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It's about keeping another inmate safe. >> jermaine knight, a member of the crip street gang, is currently serving nine months on a conviction of unlawful wounding. at the time of his arrest, he was on probation for robbery and received an additional two years for violating his probation. knight says his dedication to gang life is not at all what itt used to be. >> i haven't been in jail since i was 16. i've been a crip since i was 8. once you get in, you can't really get out. so i am what i am. but -- all these tattoos i got, they've got to go. all prison tattoos. glorify being incarcerated. ...

>> asatru is the pre-christian religion of northern europeans. >> here me now your son -- >> it's popular among predominantly white inmates countrywide. he discovered it shortly after coming to wabash 11 years earlier. he's serving a sentence for beating another man to death. his hammer pendant and many prison tattoos are symbols of his faith. >> they're viking age is a large portion of asatru. >> the prison officials have begun to see asatru as something else, a front for white supremacist gangs. members have been allowed to

>> painful? >> oh, not as painful as it was the first time. >> while sampson strives to be a pioneer in the world of prison tattoos, two other inmates we met at limon had taken the art to shocking dimensions. ♪

A deputy safe. it's about keeping another inmate safe. >> jermaine knight, a member of the crip street gang, is currently serving nine months on a conviction of unlawful wounding. at the time of his arrest, he was on probation for robbery and received an additional two years for violating his probation. knight says his dedication to gang life is not at all what it used to be. >> i haven't been in jail since i was 16. i've been a crip since i was 8. once you get in, you can't really get out. so i am what i am. but -- all these tattoos i got, they've got to go. all prison tattoos. glorify being ...

>> painful? >> oh, not as painful as it was the first time. >> while sampson strives to be a pioneer in the world of prison tattoos, two other inmates we met at limon had taken the art to shocking dimensions. ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. (dad) she's all yours. (vo) but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. a farmer's market.ve what's in this kiester. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation ...