TRWAŁE MALOWIDŁA NA SKÓRZE OSÓB INKARCEROWANYCH W POLSKICH WIĘZIENIACH
PERMANENT MARKINGS ON THE SKIN OF INCARCERATED PERSONS IN POLISH PRISONS

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns a popular phenomenon in the prison environment, namely body tattooing. It can be argued that the contemporary free-world tattoo in Poland is experiencing a "development" that began in 1989, and by the new millennium it began to be treated as art of the highest artistic level. As a consequence, the prison tattoo has also begun to evolve. Within the concept of transmission, prisoners carry all the patterns from the outside world into the prison environment and there adapt them to the prevailing conditions. For this reason, the issues addressed in the text revolve around the traditional symbolism of prison tattoos, as well as their contemporary form.

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