Misdemeanour Gang Tattoos And The Trolley Problem

You'll call it an offense.

I know that's not a crime in the sense that you go into prison and they put you in the crossing the road incorrectly on a bicycle section with all the other crossing the road incorrectly on a bicycle people.

And if you're in there for a year, you learn all of the tricks and you're never coming out of that gang then.

You'll probably get tattoos.

I think that'd be the most likely time I'd get a tattoo in prison.

If I was going to get a tattoo in prison, I wouldn't get it if I was in for murder.

I wouldn't want to be permanently identified or tagged as a murderer.

So I presume if I did get tagged as a murderer while I was in prison, if I did get permanently tattooed or tagged as a murderer, it would not be by choice.

Someone would be forcing me into this.

Some gang I've got on the wrong side of, they'll say, "No, you're going to get tagged in here.

This is how it works." You've seen the movies and real life is exactly like movies in that sense.

You go in there on a motoring offense.

Would you get a tattoo for that? I suppose you could.

You would get a tattoo saying the speed that you were driving at when you were caught and the number of people who you ran over.

You just have a number, fifty-seven MPH written on your forearm, and people wouldn't understand it unless they'd been in prison with you, then they'd know.

So it'd be like a secret code.

Well, if you put down, "I'm a member of a murder gang that murders people," they're going to know that.

You might have gone straight and you'd be going into work into your office on the train, might be in your suit and tie, and you're taking off your jacket 'cause it's the middle of July.

You've got your short sleeves on, and people are gonna see on your forearm the murder gang from Mountjoy Prison.

We're from the murder section of Mountjoy Prison, the class of '97.

Wait, do they call you the class of '97? If you went to, if you went to jail for murder, I know it's not a class.

Well, it's probably the something of '97, whoever you were in with.

Do they go by what year you were released where you say, "Oh, we're the class of '97 because most of us go out in '97"? I don't know 'cause everyone doesn't serve the same sentence or go in at the same time.

So how would that work? When you have reunions with your people who you went to jail with or who you met in jail, do they say, "Oh, we're having a reunion for the class of '97"? I suppose anyone who was here in '97 in a particular section of the jail, that's what they'd say.

I follow a school I used to go to.