“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 ...
Missouri was the first state to create a prison-based tattoo apprenticeship program in the U.S. Inmates apply and complete a 45-minute drawing test to participate in one of two programs in Missouri ...
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 ...
Daniel Gonzales pressed a tattoo needle into Israel Ray Gaitan’s bare back, where a Mayan calendar spanned Gaitan’s shoulder blades. Gonzales had already logged 30 hours tattooing the elaborate design ...