SEPTEMBER 14--Mug shot sessions are becoming more revealing as jail personnel photograph a suspect’s tattoos for identification purposes, a process that reveals and catalogs ink not normally visible.
In addition to getting fingerprinted and posing for head-on and profile images, arrestees may also have to remove or adjust their clothing so that their tattoos can be photographed.
As seen on the following pages, some of the resulting images are rather intimate.
And, of course, Florida Girl and Florida Boy each make an appearance. (17 pages)
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Meh, nothing special there. I worked in a jail for a few years, and those all looked pretty tame. Shoot, I had a squad leader with white pride tattooed across his chest. Kind of a strange guy. He and his wife ended up adopting 3 little black kids. Lemme tell you, those kids were 7 different kinds of Mississippi country.
ReplyDeleteSame here I worked in a regional prison and we had to document all the inmates tattoos. One inmate had one on his dick. i was really glad i was never involved in photographing over 150 inmates tattoos. One reason was so that we could tell if they got new tattoos which earned them a Disciplinary write up.
DeleteOne gal I knew, always in trouble, had some wild tattoos which the cops had documented. She decided she wanted a fresh start so she had several removed and the others altered.
ReplyDeleteShe was trying to alter her prints, but got busted in the middle of it all.
Judge would never send her to jail.
I like the folks who tat their own name on themselves. What? Do they need to be reminded?
ReplyDeleteI figure the lives they live when pieces of the them are found scattered about they will use the tats for identification. At least I hope they find em scattered about.
ReplyDeleteWorked at Richmond City Jail for a VERY short while. Tattoos were less common among the general population but common with the bikers. Photos were very useful in IDing the stray body turning up in the James River or spread out along US60.
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