'' Estação Carandiru '' ( " Carandiru Station " ) is a 1999 novel-memoir by Brazilian physician and AIDS specialist Drauzio Varella . The story is based on Varella 's time as a physician volunteering at Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo from 1989 up to the 1992 massacre which left 111 inmates dead , but is made up of fictionalized incidents and characters
1992 massacre
Carandiru massacre
Estação Carandiru