WHEATON, Ill. (CNN Newsource/WLS/WKRC) - An Illinois jail is offering an innovative rehabilitation program to get inmates out of gangs. At the Dupage County Jail, inmates are being given the option to ...

Under penalty of a beating or death, Erik Eck pledged at age 13 to adhere to the Latin Kings’ first rule: “Once a King, always a King.” Tattoos that bedeck his entire body express his fealty forever ...

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 ...

WHEATON, Ill. (CBS)-- Inked inmates are getting their old jail tattoos removed as part of a new program at the DuPage County Jail. We met former gang member Erick Eck, whose entire body is covered ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – In attempts to ease inmate re-integration and rehabilitation, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office launched an Inmate Tattoo Removal Program. "The purpose of the Tattoo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minnesota’s prison system is establishing a tattoo program in the hopes of giving inmates new skills and curbing the spread of bloodborne disease from illegal body art. The state Corrections ...

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 ...