"Thugs don't clean bathrooms because they can't touch shit. It took some time for Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe an academic who has dedicated his life to studying God and crime to understand this ruling. It was mid-2022, Peruvian prisons were allowing visits after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, and he sensed a climate of high tension in Lurigancho, the overcrowded fortress located east of Lima, where he has been visiting for 40 years, Bible in hand."
"The Venezuelan inmates, who back in 2018 numbered no more than 50 in all of Peru, had multiplied, and every corner of the prison was on edge. As a pastoral agent and former head of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) he located the leaders and sat down with them to unravel the origins of the conflict, but also to prevent riots and massacres that seemed imminent."
Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe, a pastoral agent and former head of the National Penitentiary Institute, engaged leaders across Lurigancho to prevent imminent riots and massacres. He found a strict underworld code called rutina among Venezuelan inmates that forbids sweeping and housework; cleaning was seen as becoming a witch and falling to the bottom of the criminal hierarchy. Venezuelan inmates multiplied since 2018, increasing tensions with Peruvian prisoners over servitude and noise. Lurigancho was designed for 2,500 inmates but held over 10,000, exacerbating coexistence problems. Venezuelan inmates also rejected sharing cells with gay men. Resolving the cultural clash required nearly three years of sustained negotiation.
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