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How To Make A Tattoo In Prison

How To Make A Tattoo In Prison

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Prison inmates take the motors out of electric typewriters and electric pencil sharpeners to help make tattoos, an inmate told a Massachusetts court. John J. Sullivan made the statement while contesting his firing as a law clerk in the prison library at Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, where he is serving a life sentence for shooting to death a woman he was seeing and her father.

Prison inmates take the motors out of electric typewriters and electric pencil sharpeners to help make tattoos, an inmate told a Massachusetts court. John J. Sullivan made the statement while contesting his firing as a law clerk in the prison library at Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, where he is serving a life sentence for shooting to death a woman he was seeing and her father.…