. >> curtis allgier. c-u-r-t-i-s, allgier, a-l-l-g-i-e-r. >> here's this terrifying looking guy.ally kind of soft spoken. >> i'm here for burglary, forgery and escape. and i have 1 to 15. i expireate in 2016. >> when we first met curtis allgier at utah state prison's maximum security unit, it didn't take long for tattoos to become the focus of the interview. >> tell me a little about your tattoos, what some of them mean, when you got them. >> i've been getting tattoos since i was 13 years old. my whole family tattoos. that's what i do on the streets. i'm a tattoo artist. certain ones have meaning. my wife's name across my forehead. that's how much i love my lady. and other ones are my political beliefs. >> allgier's political beliefs have to do with his near life-long affiliation with the skinheads. >> my whole family was skinheads. i was raised that way. i was born and raised into it. my dad, my uncle, all my cousins, all my family. being a skinhead is a way of life. it's preserving your race. it's being proud of who you are and wanting to better that. swastika is a very powerfu

. >> curtis allgier is serving 1 to 15 years for burglary, forgery and escape. >> a lot of people seea and say that's hate. to me, that's not what i wear it for. i wear it as a symbolism of pride of who i am and a symbolism of good luck. and i have a lot of them. >> curtis is locked down with gang leaders in uinta-2 because he's considered a threat to inmates in general population. >> in uinta-2, that is where we'll house our maximum security gang members. this is generally the leadership, those that are trying to run the gang. >> they are the more active gang members. that's the reason we have them here because they are so active. and they're the ones who like to start trouble. >> while proud to be a skinhead, curtis doesn't want to be considered a gang member anymore. >> i'm no part of them. i've never been a part of them, nor will i ever be a part of them. those dudes, in my mind, are weak and lame. they're not white supremacists, because of these groups that commit crimes and do all the crap that they do, people are going to look at us bad. >> at utah state prison, staff estimates