Daniel Gonzales pressed a tattoo needle into Israel Ray Gaitan’s bare back, where a Mayan calendar spanned Gaitan’s shoulder ...

The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna began inking the flesh of ...

Born in Delhi, La., in 1964, Victor "Versus" Sandifer is a prison tattoo artist. He has spent 21 years doing time in both Texas and Louisiana, much of it giving and receiving tattoos. His arms and ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — More than nineteen hundred Utah prison inmates were under investigation for either getting tattoos or giving tattoos behind the confines of prison in the last three years, a ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - It's against the rules in Ohio to get tattoos in prison, yet people walk out of prison nearly every day with their faces, necks and hands covered in prison ink. It's one of the ...

SMYRNA, Del. - The Delaware Department of Corrections announced the first four inmates have graduated from the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center from the Tattoo Artist Career Pathway Program.

Travis “Leo” Leonard recently spent 30 hours tattooing an elaborate Japanese-inspired artwork on a customer at No Joke Tattoo Studios in White Bear Lake. The large tattoo, done mostly in black, fills ...

Prisons are filled with tattooed inmates. If there was any doubts about that fact, a 2017 Palm Beach Post analysis looking specifically at the tattoos on the bodies of criminals incarcerated in ...