# Of prisons and tattoos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-prisons-and-tattoos/792245>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 27, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-prisons-and-tattoos/792245 "2017-07-27T06:19:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-prisons-and-tattoos/792245/21 "2017-07-30T10:18:38Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> There’s nothing in his post to indicate that.  
> Both.

Perhaps we have different ideas about what a well-run shopping centre would look like:

> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> 13% of my prison patients have Hepatitis C. That’s over 3000 inmates. And the rates of infection are going up. Many got it from prison tattoos, though far more got it from sharing needles for drugs.

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