Prison reform is one of my longest-standing interests. Over the years, I've read extensively about various systems from different parts of the globe, but I've never come across Sepa. For the past weeks, I have been doing some personal research to learn more about Peru and Peruvian culture (mainly to discuss it with Stefano), and I can't believe how much I have been missing out on!

Sepa was a highly feared, open-air prison that operated between 1951 and 1993 and…