Maximum Security Caro Quintero, "The Ear-Chopper," former general Gutirrez Rebollo, Mario Aburto, and other famous inmates at the La Palma and Puente Grande prisons talk to Julio Scherer, who gets them to say what they never imagined they could verbalize. Maximum Security explores the horizons of Mexican prisons; the horror, lacks, abuses, and filth that characterize them. A stormy, convoluted, and traumatic journey in which the reader gets the last word.