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The bikers, perhaps the most controversial club in Walla Walla, started with official approval as a training class in motorcycle maintenance. The members of this club keep busy by flaunting their lifestyles on Friday afternoons when they all get…

Using aluminum foil and q-tips this biker fashions model Harleys to sell to other inmates.

Although tattooing implements are not allowed inside the prison, tattoo artists abound. A sharpened guitar string and India ink suffice. Many club members have symbols tattooed in various parts of the body. The swastika is used by the motorcycle…

The scar on Bud's neck and tattoo on his back tell it all. When bike club members learned he had a good drug connection on the outside they demanded his wife bring drugs to the prison and pass them to him while kissing in the visiting room. He…

A prisoner with a half-eaten ear.

With little to do to kill the time, drugs of any sort sell well. Many inmates manage to stay stoned every day.

Inmate weight lifter.

With a lot of time to kill inmates preoccupy themselves with a variety of sport and games.

With fewer than 400 jobs for the population of 1400, most inmates have little to do all day long but look for something to do. One inmate described prison life as 'Hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.'

Inmates choose their own cellmates to live in their 9' by 12' cells.