Killings in Lima and Callao prisons
Prison massacres between 1985-1992 with approximately 350 inmates dead
The prison massacres occurred in 1985, 1986 and 1992, remaining in the terrible tally of penitentiary history. Approximately 350 inmates were killed, most of them as a result of extrajudicial executions. The State, unable to apply a correct and efficient anti-subversive strategy in the prisons, opted on these occasions for the physical elimination of the enemy. These killings were the result of the excessive use of force by the State.