Run away as far as possible if you see someone with these tattoos.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF TATTOOS?
Indeed, among prisoners, certain tattoos have a very specific meaning, and if overall, they represent a way of showing one’s belonging to a group, or simply a way of asserting oneself and dissuading other prisoners, they can constitute a real CV of the prisoner for those who know how to decode their meaning, and reveal information such as the number of years spent in prison for example, or the prisoner’s criminal past, real identifiers therefore.
As Jérôme Pierrat, author of the book on prisoner tattoos “Mauvais Garçons” (Jérôme Pierrat and Eric Guillon), pointed out on Mediapart: “At first glance, these tattoos can pass for vulgar decorative marks. In the eyes of those in the know, they are a real identity card.”

In this article, we will try to give you a list of tattoos listed by gang criminology specialists and prison officers and we will see that these tattoos are not there just for their aesthetics but that they convey a very specific message. So here are 14 prisoner tattoo designs whose particular meaning is chilling, enough to think twice before getting a tattoo, a choice that should never be taken lightly.