If you have ever wanted to make your own prison tattoo gun, might as well watch the process of tattoo artist Scott Campbell making his own makeshift tattoo gun. He goes around NYC finding materials, then giving filmmaker Casey Neistat his own prison tattoo in the middel of Tompkins Square Park.

This post is two-fold. One, we receive many letters from prisoners who are avid readers of Juxtapoz. And two, we like to showcase someone who documents prison art in a classic portrayal like Robert Gumpert has in this series, American Prison Tattoos. Gumpert explores the meanings behind prisoners’ tattoos in Californian penitentiaries with clean black and white photography. Many photos after the jump . . .

We wanted to start your morning off a little heavy, but like a proper newspaper, with a bit of history and historical context. Right now in London, England, an exhibition exploring the photography and mythology of Russian criminal tattoos is on display...