Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials
rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison …

La cuestión del poder en el marco de la prisión resulta un elemento crucial para los
estudios sociales sobre este tipo peculiar de institución del castigo legal, desde su mismo …

Most of the literature that discusses the topic of drug trafficking and prisons in Latin America
has focused on the impact of the war on drugs on the significant increase of the prison …

This final chapter attempts to take stock of the several explorations included in this book as
well as the wider work social researchers have done in the last years. In its first part, it …

This collection addresses the specific issue of inmate governance in Latin American prisons,
within the framework of the more general question of the power relations that structure life in …

Some of Latin America's prison systems mass incarceration provoked a serious structural
crisis in the criminal justice system due to practices of state illegality and emergent forms of …

The first evangelical wings emerged in Argentina during the 1980s. Since then, its number
multiplied. This phenomenon has an increasing complexity and acquires a peculiar …

Building on the growing literature on the varying degrees and dimensions of prisoner
governance across prison systems, this paper aims to understand how such governance …

Within the neocolonial context of 'Plan Colombia'in the early 2000s, agents of the US
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) took up position in the heart of the Colombian penitentiary …

While the worldwide prison population has risen little in the twenty-first century in proportion
to general population, in Latin America, it has more than doubled. Across the region …