A report from UNM Today reveals that Native American reservations are struggling from problems with their youth getting involved in criminal activity. People in the community are working together to try to find solutions to this problem. One of the options that may be considered is a tattoo removal program for those youth involved in gangs who wish to sever their criminal ties and start over.
Many different communities have started implementing this type of tattoo removal program as part of the rehabilitation for their young people who get involved in crime. Teenagers and young adults frequently find themselves in trouble with peers as well as authority figures as a result of their gang-affiliated tattoos.
If they decide to leave that life behind, tattoo removal can be useful in making sure that other people in the community also start to see them differently. Of course, this is only one option for rehabilitation programs to consider. There is never quite enough money to set up all of the programs that the community needs. This may be particularly true on the reservations which are already struggling to fund existing programs.
Question of the Day: Of how much importance are community tattoo removal programs in efforts to rehabilitate criminal youth?
