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Back Gate Back to Regular, Excellent Publishing Regimen

By Gritsforbreakfast

Though their remodeled site does not have permalinks, making it impossible to link to individual stories (please guys, fix this and you'll get a lot more traffic from me, at the very least!), The Back Gate, a blog operated by Texas prison guards, has published some excellent, informative posts in the last couple of weeks, including an item by a Sergeant who was accidentally pricked with a prison tattoo needle (pictured) during a cell search. He describes the torturous wait for medical test results to come back, and how the preventive treatment regimen changed his life for months thereafter.Virtually everyone who goes to prison comes back with one or more tattoos, though all of the required equipment is considered contraband. In New Mexico under Republican Governor Bill Richardson, state prisons actually set up tattoo parlors inside the walls to reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C through dirty needles...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).