Like Corneliu, he wants to remove his tats. If they get you, there's no way you can deny it. When I ask Cristian how many tattoos he has, and what they mean to him, he sighs. He has so many he doesn't know which story to start with. He eventually tells me that he got his first tattoo "on the outside," but most of them were inked in jail. His favorite tattoo is a portrait of the grandmother who raised him.
The giant image was created using the battery from a CD player, the handle of a spoon, a needle, and some ink. For Iulian, his tattoos are both a lifestyle and a list of the people he's loved.
He got his first, the very first time he was imprisoned. When Iulian gets out, he wants to have them all redone, to make them look better and stand out more. He likes black tattoos, but you can't get "too artsy" in prison when all you have is a small motor and needle. Iulian has never been infected because he always assembles his own inking machines and never uses other people's needles.
Sofica sports a total of 12 tattoos—most of them names of her loved ones. She got the first when she turned 15, but the majority of the rest were done in prison. She regrets her tats and is considering removing them once she gets out. She says the women in her community don't usually have that many, though her mother also has a few tattoos. George has several tattoos, but none of them were done in prison. Another wire is then connected to the negative end of the battery and placed in the saltwater.
When the positively charged needle is dipped into the saltwater, the end quickly turns black and is wiped clean. If this process is done over and over again, a thin layer of metal is finally wiped away — and every little bit makes the needle that much sharper. The barrel, usually made from a pen barrel, holds and focuses the soon-to-be attached needle.
The mount, usually made from a prison toothbrush, holds the barrel underneath the motor. And the motor drives the tattoo needle up-and-down at lightning-fast speeds. But what about the motor?
It has to be small enough to fit easily on our tattoo gun. Surprisingly, small motors can be found through many, many sources, even in prison. And the motors from these are the most commonly used for tattoo guns today. Other sources include the small motors in typewriters which is what legal documents are generally typed on in prison , and the motors from small personal fans. Depending on the motor, it may already have a spindle, an off-center piece on the moving wheel of the motor that, when spun, rotates whatever is attached you may have to make one by gluing or soldering a small piece of paper clip just off the center of the rotating part of the motor.
You have everything you need to be a burgeoning prison tattoo-artist, but you need to assemble it into a workable device. Now what? You then cut the barrel with scissors, nail clippers, or a piece of floss used like a saw the barrel should be a bit longer than the length of the needle. After that, you attach the barrel to the mount if using a toothbrush, you often have to melt the plucked brush head to a degree angle , securing it with rubber bands or the zip-ties passed out to secure prison laundry-bags.
You then attach the motor on top of the mount, securing it in the same way. Now you thread the needle through the hole of the barrel and wrap the other end around the spindle. This acts much like the pistons in a car engine; as the motor spins, the end of the needle rotates but is focused by the barrel into a primarily up-and-down movement with every spin.
This is the basis of the tattoo gun. The concept of a career criminal stems from empirical research showing that the majority of crimes are committed by a minority of criminals, i.
This subgroup of offenders is essentially identifying with a criminal lifestyle and a criminal culture. Since these individuals are criminals for life, recidivism is connected to this theory. Statistics show there are a greater percentage of repeat offenders who have tattoos as compared to the general public, although the type of tattoos was unspecified. Multivariate analysis of covariance MANCOVA procedures indicated that those with prison tattoos differed from the other groups when examining their identification with the criminal lifestyle, as measured by the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles Version 4.
Additionally, analysis of covariance ANCOVA procedures indicated that inmates with prison tattoos differed from the other groups regarding their risk of recidivism, which was explored using the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire SAQ.
Some prisoners act as if it is some type of right of passage. One fact is very clear getting tattoos in prison is much cheaper and believe it or not some of the best tattoo artist are in prison. Also tattoos that cost five hundred dollars in society will only cost around one hundred fifty dollars sometimes less in prison. The tattoos are normally paid off with canteen which makes the business pretty lucrative for the tattoo artist. Prisoners glorify the tattoos by showing them off to their friends.
This leads to a competition, where prisoners try to out do each other by getting extravagant tattoos. There is a constant search for the next best tattoo pattern. Another reason tattoos exist is gangs wear them. The tattoos let rival gangs know what area they are from and how much of a threat they are to others. Simple mathematics, if you mess with a person with a gang tattoo, their group will retaliate.
The tattoos are not just limited to gangs because certain racist groups wear them too. They have them to let prisoners know, they only associate with their race. All ethnic groups have people with tattoos but here are the main ones, African American prisoners have them, some Mexicans and European Americans and Asians have these tattoos. Tattoos are not just worn by prisoners.
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