[3] Because of understaffing, guards leave the internal operation of large prisons, including the management of commerce, to taitas, the bosses among the inmates.

[7] In 2008, Justice minister Rosario Fernández Figueroa announced a commission to evaluate and recommend a plan to privatize the prison systems under the supervision of INPE.

[11] In February 2008, television stations broadcast parts of the "Melodies of Freedom" talent competition which was held between prisons across Lima.

[14] A courthouse was built on the prison grounds to reduce the risk of escape attempts while transporting inmates to judicial hearings.

The photo included Van der Sloot casually posing with Colombian hitman Hugo Trujillo Ospina, accused of the contract killing of Peruvian entrepreneur Myriam Fefer, and American William Trickett Smith II, accused of killing and dismembering his Peruvian wife.

[16] Van der Sloot and Smith have been referred to by local media as "the foreigners accused of the most talked-about assassinations in our country.

"[17] In September 2010, Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries visited the prison while accompanied by a documentary crew and Beth Holloway, whose daughter Natalee was last seen with Van der Sloot in Aruba before disappearing in 2005.

According to Peruvian television program 24 Horas, Holloway spoke with Van der Sloot briefly before he cancelled the meeting because his attorney was not present.

[23] In August 2010, Dutch drug trafficker Jackson Conquet killed 22-year-old girlfriend Leslie Dayán Paredes Silva while she visited him at the prison for sex.

To reduce the overpopulation rate, the plan was to remove mandatory minimums and pre-trial detention for low-level offenders.