was a good catch, man. right here is from inside of a light, a staple. this right here is the same copper wire that came from the inside of the hair clippers and two checkers pieces to hold it together. these guys know what they re doing. another inmate marcelo cardenas is not a tattoo artist but has gained a reputation for crafting high-quality jailhouse tattoo guns. i rent the gun or i sell it, it goes for $30, $25 or $30 in this county right here. because he is due to leave the jail any day now to start his six-year prison sentence for assault, cardenas agreed to demonstrate how it s done. right now it s not like i really care about it. if they run me out, i m going to leave before they do punishment or the reprimand on me. cardenas starts with some wire scavenged from some electric hair clippers. we rub the wire like this here. he winds the wire around the screw to make a crude
i ve got to deal with this. it s just prison. at any time you can just be taken out of your comfort zone and put you wherever they see fit. if they deem you a hazard. even if no relevance or anything. it s just crazy. basically what we found, this guy s a bit of a tattoo artist. he s got all of the tattoo magazines. so we were thinking, oh, we re going to find something. well, we found one tattoo gun, two tattoo guns. and, you know, they say where there s smoke, there s fire. what we ll do is we ll book him on rules violation and maybe get loss of privileges or something. it is contraband. light bulbs, inmate manufacture, cigarette holders. graffiti with 666 on it. we ll confiscate it and leave them a receipt. that concludes this cell search. pretty much hit what we needed to hit and found what we needed to find. so we re done in here.
linked them to cyber attacks during the election campaign. now back to lockup. announcer: 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 says staff has confiscated from inmates over the years are a 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
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 says staff has confiscated from inmates over the years are a 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.
i ve found a lot of shanks, a lot of tattoo guns, a lot of tobacco, but i ve never found any real hard drugs. so it s exciting. but nothing short of life-altering for cherry, who could be facing many more years in prison. he s going downtown probably get charged with distribution because of the amount of drugs that were there. and then with the amount of felonies he s got, he s probably going to get charged with habitual too. he ll probably end up doing the rest of his life in prison over that now. how much time did you have left? about six years. no matter what happens with his charges, cherry s future in prison could be perilous. this offender could be in fairly grave danger if he came back to population and it would take several months of investigation and stuff from our intel people to determine if it would be safe for him to be back in population. i m pretty sure whoever the