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 ...

Travis “Leo” Leonard recently spent 30 hours tattooing an elaborate Japanese-inspired artwork on a customer at No Joke Tattoo ...

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 ...

Work is underway at the Grand Sierra Resort to accommodate a new tenant, Prison Blues Tattoo Studio, according to a permit filed last Friday. The permit, which is under review by the city of Reno, ...

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 ...