Within the harsh realities of the prison environment, the teardrop tattoo took on a deeply symbolic meaning. For some inmates, the tattoo was a symbol of their "ownership" by a more powerful ...

recalling the Holocaust when concentration camp inmates were tattooed with numbers. Accounts vary on when and who started the numbers-tracking practice in Mexico, but it has become a part of the ...

That is the question being raised as the Sapporo Bar Association announced Feb. 27 that it had issued an advisory to a prison, arguing that banning inmates from viewing tattoo-related books ...