Prison tattoos. Tribal war cries, gangland affiliations, shibboleths, insignias, teardrop kill counts, hard-time tallies and various forms of outlaw iconography engraved like caution codes into the ...

Prison tattoos are a right of passage and an honest way to shave time inside the clink. The problem is that getting a jailhouse tattoo is illegal and often difficult to arrange. Unless you know how to ...

Prison officials say bringing tattoo art into an educational, organized and clean environment is meant to give men in lockup a safe outlet to express their individualism and provide groups of prisoner ...

“I was always drawing all the time, but I didn’t have any direction, really, to go with it,” recalls Piper, a local tattoo artist and author. “I got enrolled into the Colorado Institute of Art at one ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The face tattoos are hard to miss on one of the suspectsin the drive-by shooting death of Da’Myiah Barton-Pickens. Qasseem Dixon is accused of killing the nine-year-old, in a drive ...

Illicit jailhouse tattoos — carved blurrily into flesh with pins, paper clips and improvised tattoo guns — endanger people's health and cost Minnesota taxpayers a small fortune in hepatitis C ...

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T. Vaughn ...