Typically, red and black inks are the easiest to remove. Yellow and green are more difficult. As he waits for his next patient, the gangly, soft-spoken doctor reflects on his decision to become a Clean Slate volunteer. Then, as he came to know the patients, he became emotionally involved. From caterpillars to butterflies.
Courts attempt to mark where individual rights end and societal rights begin.
He begins our talk by explaining the trick to tearing in half one of the many phone books in the conference room, a feat his arthritic joints have kept him from showing off for quite some time. Once they're out of the gang, job training and educations can help provide them with new opportunities. They thought life was the survival of the fittest. When Clean Slate began in the summer of 1994, it was simply an assembly line, removing hundreds of tattoos and offering the service to anyone who asked. Soon it became clear that removing the tattoos was literally scraping the surface of the problem.