The hands knitting so deftly are covered in tattoos and, nearby, another man delicately puts the final touches to a painting of Elsa, the character from Disney’s animation Frozen.
That’s the scene in a prison in El Salvador, Central America, where former members of the country’s ultra-violent gangs are being kept after renouncing their previous life and readying to re-enter society.
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