CARLOS AGUIRRE: The Criminals of Lima and their Worlds. The Prison Experience, 1850-1935. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2005.

Abstract

An elongated and narrow hall, consisting of two floors of close-set prisoners’
cells. On the ground floor, a group of people, probably inmates, are seated
at a long dining table. One guard, leaning against the cell door, is watching the
inmates dine. A big cross under the curved ceiling is also watching them from
above. The picture was taken from a distance; it is very dark and gloomy. Neither
the faces of the inmates nor their bodies can be observed. They almost seem
to create one inseparable body, which at the same time is separated from “the
outside world”.