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  2. Prison tattooing - Wikipedia

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    Prison tattooing is the practice of creating and displaying tattoos in a prison environment. Present-day American and Russian prisoners may convey gang membership, code, or hidden meanings for origin or criminal deeds. Lack of proper equipment and sterile environments lead to health risks such as infection or disease (hepatitis C, HIV) from ...

  3. Criminal tattoo - Wikipedia

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    Teardrop tattoo: A teardrop underneath an eye: the wearer was raped in prison [26] [27] and tattooed with a teardrop under the eye by the offending party, [26] this was a way of "marking" an inmate as property or to publicly humiliate the inmate as face tattoos cannot be hidden. In West Coast gang culture, the tattoo may signify that the wearer ...

  4. Teardrop tattoo - Wikipedia

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    Teardrop tattoo. The teardrop tattoo or tear tattoo is a symbolic tattoo of a tear that is placed underneath the eye. The teardrop is one of the most widely recognised prison tattoos [1] and has various meanings. It can signify that the wearer has spent time in prison, [2][3] or more specifically that the wearer was raped while incarcerated and ...

  5. Face tattoo - Wikipedia

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    A face tattoo or facial tattoo is a tattoo located on the bearer's face or head. It is part of the traditional tattoos of many ethnic groups. In modern times, although it is considered taboo and socially unacceptable in many cultures, [1][2] as well as considered extreme in body art, [3] this style and placement of tattoo has emerged in certain ...

  6. Curtis Allgier - Wikipedia

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    Criminal status. Incarcerated. Conviction (s) Aggravated murder. Criminal penalty. Life imprisonment without parole. Curtis Michael Allgier (born August 25, 1979) [1] is an American white supremacist [2] skinhead who is being held in the Utah State Prison [3] in Draper, Utah, for the murder of corrections officer Stephen Anderson.

  7. Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps

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    The tattoo was applied to the upper left part of the breast. In March 1942, the same method was used in Birkenau. [citation needed] The common belief that all concentration camps put tattoos on inmates is not true. The misconception is because Auschwitz inmates were often sent to other camps and liberated from there.

  8. Russian criminal tattoos - Wikipedia

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    In Russian criminal jargon or Fenya (феня), a full set of tattoos is known as frak s ordenami (a tailcoat with decorations). The tattoos show a "service record" of achievements and failures, prison sentences and the type of work a criminal does. They might also represent his "thief's family", naming others within hearts or with the ...

  9. History of tattooing - Wikipedia

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    Tattooing was an expensive and painful process and by the late 1880s had become a mark of wealth for the crowned heads of Europe. [ 137 ] In 1891, New York City tattooer Samuel O'Reilly patented the first electric tattoo machine, a modification of Thomas Edison 's electric pen. Nora Hildebrandt.

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