Where’d You Get Those Tats? A Prison Prevention Play Behind bars, a tattoo “needle” is a twist tie, paper clip or guitar string, slipped sometimes through the plastic casing of a Bic pen and heated up with the motor from a hair dryer or electric shaver. The same sharp point etches a gang symbol on an arm and a teardrop on a cheek; the ink is used again and again—and there’s a lot of blood.
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