Mistreatment in Yanamayo
Testimony on mistreatment suffered by a detainee in Yanamayo prison, Puno, collected in October 2002.
A witness recounted the mistreatment he suffered in the Yanamayo prison, located in Puno. This testimony is part of the denunciations of prison conditions in the maximum security prisons, which since 1992 have become spaces that have undermined everything that gives security to human beings. The testimony was collected in Sicuani in October 2002. Mistreatment in the prisons was a common experience for the detainees, who suffered humiliation and attacks on their personal dignity.