This article was originally published on VICE Germany. In the good old days, if you were in jail and wanted to get a tattoo, you'd take the tiny motor out of an electric shaver or CD player, attach it to a ballpoint pen, insert a sewing needle into that contraption and jab it repeatedly into your skin. Painful, often unsanitary and, until recently, exactly what inmates would do inside Schrassig, Luxembourg's only prison. `Prisoners actually used everything they could,` says Mike Conrath, 45, who works in the jail's medical clinic. Besides the shoddy machines, Conrath says they had some `really bad ideas` when it came...
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