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Shining Path female inmates hold a tribute to their leader Abimael Guzmán in one of the wings of Miguel Castro Castro prison
This photograph was published on July 30, 1991 in the magazine Caretas. The country's prisons were not prepared to receive hundreds of detainees held on terrorism charges: their security levels and capacity were overwhelmed by the influx of new inmates who, under the slogan of turning prisons into new fronts of struggle or "luminous combat trenches," imposed their own control behind bars, planning and coordinating operations or holding demonstrations dressed in red-and-black uniforms, flags bearing the hammer and sickle, and portraits of "President Gonzalo."