In 1994 Mikhail Yegoro, estimated that the number of organized crime groups had grown from 785 to over 5,000, by 1996 it was over 8,000, today it is unknown. Tattoo's usually done in prison are done with homemade tools. They are done in the rite of passage often tattooed before they are sentenced prison. The tattoo's have multiple meanings so people not involved would not know what they are.
A popular tattoo is the Madonna and Child, thought to ward of evil in reality it symbolizes that the person has been a criminal from a young age.
Some tattoo's are given by force, usually on the face. Criminal owning of some people. Humiliating tattoo's are often forcibly given to outcasts eg - child rapists, a pair of eyes on the lower stomach are usually for homosexual men.
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