HEAVILY tattooed prisoners wince in pain as fellow inmates use improvised tattoo machines to cover up gang symbols – an effort to reduce jail violence that sceptics say is only skin-deep.
Clashes between rival clans are common in the country’s notoriously crowded and under-resourced jails, where a gang can be a lifeline to food, medicine and protection.
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