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Prison Tattoos & Art CD-ROM
$17
includes shipping & handling
Contents: 100 tattoo
images with definitions on each image
·
example
1 ·
example
2
21 examples of
prison
gang art -
no definitions
22 examples of
prison
art - no definitions
7
images of prison tattoo machines with the parts defined
and a training article on prison
tattoo recognition.
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Return of the Tribal: A Celebration of Body Adornment: Piercing, Tattooing,
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The Body Art Book: A Complete, Illustrated Guide to Tattoos, Piercings, and
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Body Marks: Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification (Single Titles)
The Art of the New Zealand Tattoo
Tribal Vol.II
Bushido : Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo
The Japanese Tattoo
Dragons Vol.I
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Magazines
Tattoo Magazine
Flash Magazine
Savage Magazine
Outlaw Biker Tattoo Revue
Tats, Tacs or Ink, whatever slang term you use to describe
tattoos there’s one thing you can’t get around. Tattoo recognition and
interpretation is a valuable tool when dealing with state prison parolees. A
convict’s ink will tell you three sweet pieces of info about him.Who he is, what
he’s done and where he’s been. Lets first talk about joint tats in general.
Joint ink starts out as one color. Blue. It
may turn black or purple according to the sun and the skin pigment but it usually starts
out blue. If you see other colors besides blue, or it’s variations, the tat probably
is not a true joint tat. There are two ways of giving a tat. Free hand, which most are, or
machine. Free hands a no brainer. You get some ink, usually out of a pen, and you dip a
needle, usually a straight pen, and you use the Polynesian method. That is a series of
dots to form a picture or word. These tats are crude and sloppy and very noticeable. The
second method is the machine. A home made tat machine consists of a slot car motor, a
hollowed out ball point pin, some guitar string and a 9 volt battery. Oh ya and the ink.
The hollowed out pen is wired or taped to the motor facing away from it. The guitar string
is wrapped around the arm of the motor and run through the pen so it sticks out about a
16th of an inch out the end. Hook up a flashlight battery and its tat time. When the
battery is hooked up, the motor arm vibrates which moves the guitar string back and forth
rapidly in and out of the end of the pen and as long as you keep dipping the end in the
ink, you can create a tattoo. Machine ink jobs are more detailed because of the method but
also because they are usually done with stencils. Getting caught giving a tat or getting
one in the joint is a serious crono. You remember, a 115. A write up. It spreads decease
inside the institution.
OK, lets talk about the three things the ink tells you. First of
all, who he is. Many times the convict will have his name or street name on him. I have
even heard of having one’s CDC # put on. Also a loved ones name may help you ID him.
What he’s done often relates to his crimes. For example if he carries a gun, a
picture of the weapon maybe on him. If the gun is pictured from the side this means he
carries a gun. If the weapon is pointed outward, this means he is a shooter. Where
he’s been has to do with the joints he has called home. The ink in relation to the
joints he’s been in will be landmarks. Landmarks such as walls, gun towers, cell
doors or windows and bob wire. Remember to take your time and read the ink.
Lets talk a bit about some common ink you may
see and what it means.
Tattoos . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and their
Meaning
Clock faces
without hands
Tombstones with numbers
on them
Tombstones with numbers
and RIP
Spider or cob webs on
elbows or shoulders
Eight balls
One laughing face, one
crying face
SWP
Peckerwood
Featherwood
Viking themes
Granite block walls
100 % pure
Cell window with sun or
bird showing
Face of female crying
SUR
Norteano
Prison block wall with
bricks falling outward
Doing time
The years they were
inside
Mourning the death of a
friend
Doing time
Behind the eight ball or
bad luck
Play now, pay later or my
happy life, my sad life
Supreme white power
White pride ( males )
White pride ( females )
Common Caucasian tat
Time in Old Folsom Prison
Pure white or anglo
Waiting to get out
Has someone on the
outside waiting
Southerner
Northerner
Inside wanting to get out
.
PRISON GANG TATS
Mexican Mafia:
Eagle with snake in it’s mouth sitting on the letters EME.
A black hand.
“ EME “
A black hand with the letters EME in the palm." Mafia Mexicana "
“ MM “
Nuestra Familia:
“ NF “
“ NS “
A sombrero covering a machete dripping blood
Aryan Brotherhood:
Swastika covered with a three leaf clover. In the leaves of the clover are
“ AB “ and “ 666 “
“ SWP “
100 % pure
“ AB “
“ Peckerwood “
Picture of a bluebird
Black Guerrilla Family:
Dragon attacking a prison gun tower
Two hands chained over a rifle and a sword crossed
“ BGF “
The new trend with prison gang tats is not to
get them because it ID’s them as a gang member. Remember to read tats like a book.
From left to right and from up to down. Don’t just list a few on the face sheet to
keep the nasty Sergeant of your leg, take your time and look at them carefully. There are
stories within stories. We are seeing more and more Vietnamese parolees getting inked.
They seem to like tats that show their birthplace. Like maps of Vietnam on the back.
"Vietnamese Pride" under the neck and four dots or T’s which can mean many
different things from wealth money and guns to prison. Oriental convicts are not using
joint geography like the other groups we have mentioned. OK, remember what the ink says to
you, slow down, read it completely and as always, be careful out there.
For more info contact:
Sergeant Ken Whitley,
P.O. BOX 2623
Corona, CA 92878-2623
or e-mail
info@convictsandcops.com
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