prison-sanctioned tatoo program for inmates? Good or bad?
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The fact is inmates will ink with or without our help. Now I know there are way too many ink shops around and really don’t want inmates shooting gang tats in prison. Though if we were to regulate it there would be less disease spread by this. I look at it as the tobacco in Ohio now. I spend most of my day chasing down a few roll ups in a lock because this new black market is ridiculous. Officers are being walked out because there is enough money to be made to grab the greedy but now they can’t give you a felony for it because it is not against the law to convey tobacco (they need to update the law)...
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