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

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 ...

“I was always drawing all the time, but I didn’t have any direction, really, to go with it,” recalls Piper, a local tattoo artist and author. “I got enrolled into the Colorado Institute of Art at one ...

Black-and-white faces. Eyes that have witnessed decades of prison life and streets ruled by shadow codes. Bodies inked with stars, spiders, cats and cathedrals - symbols of rank, loyalty and defiance.

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 ...

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) - Tattoo Removal Ink has partnered with the Campbell County Detention Center to offer inmates free tattoo removal services. Tattoos can cause barriers for inmates once they ...

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, ...