Where homies can heal

摘要

It Can take between three and 40 treat ments to remove a prison tattoo, says Troy, a volunteer doctor at Homeboy In dustries in central Los Angeles, as another former gang member takes a seat. Troy zaps the tattoos with a laser, breaking up the ink so that the immune system can de stroy it. This is painful, and the laser's sharp cracking sound reminds some pa tients of shooting or of the prison yard, ex plains Andre, who is 27, spent seven years in prison, and got his first tattoo when he was 11. But it is still good to get rid of tattoos.