due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. like many jails across the country, officers at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, fight a constant battle against the proliferation of contraband items. what we have here are things that are found during a daily shakedown that we have here in the jail. alongside the jail-made weapons that captain brooks staff has confiscated from inmates over the years are a number of improvised tattoo guns. this one right here is pretty ingenuous. this one is attached to a motor.
number of improvised tattoo guns. this one right here is pretty ingenuous. this appears to be a staple run through the head of an ink pen and it s attached to a motor. that looks similar to the motors that are in some of the air fresheners that are hung up in some of the offices. an inmate worker probably was in that area cleaning and smuggled it into the back and made a tattoo gun out of it. it s important that we find this stuff because it s dangerous. it s a sharp instrument in a cell. it can spread incommunicable diseases, hepatitis c, aids, the list goes on and on. please just give me a chance listen to what i ve got to say garrett says he s known for two things in jail his rapping and his work as a tattoo artist. he says tattooing other inmates has been a steady business for him, usually in trade for commissary items and phone calls.
we used to always joke if we were to ever accidentally leave a camera in prison overnight, that when we came back in the morning, it would be 15 tattoo guns. before being sent to the hole for practicing his craft, roger bosheres was a prolific tattoo artist at the spring creek correctional center in alaska. he feels punishing tattoo artists is to not recognize an opportunity. right now, if you get caught tattooing, you run the risk of getting in trouble. plus, i mean, it s not as clean as it could be. it s a highly sterilized process on the streets. all the shops and stuff, it s very clinical. i mean, yeah, we clean things as best we can. but kind of ramshackle materials we have to use, pens and guitar strings and such. we don t have the autoclaves and sonic sterilizers and that stuff they have out there on the streets. new needles, stuff like that. i would like them to let us do tattoos, let us have all the classes, you know the proper sterilizations techniques. it s a part of t
algire, himself. i do my whole face, my left arm, my legs, my stomach. how do you deal with the pain? when you do it yourself, it s not near as bad. in the prison system, we do not authorize or condone tattooing. but the inmates are very creative. they come up with methods to do it. it s a serious enough violation that it can land an inmate in the hole for months. i just did 14 months in the hole. why? for tattooing. prison tattoos are applied with crude but ingenious homemade tat guns and ink that are often confiscated during cell searches. this here is several vials of ink and a homemade tattoo gun. they make their own tattoo guns out of electronic motors from portable radios or tape players. they get a motor, find a battery or electrical socket or something to drive this. spin the needle and it will go back and forth.
due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. like many jails across the country, officers at the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, fight a constant battle against the proliferation of contraband items. s. what we have here are things that are found during a daily shakedown that we have here in the jail. alongside the jail-made weapons that captain brooks staff has confiscated from inmates over the years are a number of improvised tattoo guns. this one right here is pretty ingenuous. this one is attached to a motor.