What It`s Like Inside an `Open` Prison
(WorldNews Argentina)

A version of this article originally appeared on VICE en Español. Daniel Marconi removes the new blade from its packaging and, with as much dexterity as his thick, sausage-like fingers will allow, the barber slides it into the hilt of the knife. `Are you sure you don´t want your eyebrows done as well?` he asks me, laughing. `I do them with thread, it´s beautiful.` He wets a brush and rubs it against the bar of soap in gentle circular movements until foam accumulates in the brass bowl. `It´ll be a bit cold, but not that bad.` He drags the blade across the surface of my soaped-up face as the rest of the barber shop-comprised of a group of young men with tattoos and well-defined...