Gang tattoos, white supremacist symbols and prison ink are some of what the new Ink Free B.C. Initiative Society is offering to remove for free in order to help individuals leave behind painful past associations.

Ink Free B.C. Initiative Society was started this past August by Amanda Chinn, owner of Almost Famous Laser Corp, a downtown Nanaimo laser clinic offering hair removal, scar reduction and tattoo removal.

"To see people be able to reintegrate and want to influence others, I think there's so much power to that," she said, "and I have a service I can provide and help people to do that."

Chinn said she was inspired by Removery's Ink-nitiative Program , which similarly removes, for free or at low cost, tattoos that depict subject matter related to gangs or hate groups.

"But their

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