© 2021 Centro Estudios Derecho Penal. All rights reserved.The prison population has specific legal needs. While several of these needs are judicial in nature, others are related to personal issues. Whatever the nature of ...

This project intends to analyze the peculiarities of the course offered by the School of Penitentiary Management of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Based on documents collected in the school’s archives, it seeks to verify if ...

Based on the premise that persons with disabilities become victims of various institutional violations, especially those of a legal and social nature, when faced with the prison system, the purpose of this document is to ...

There is a manifest and current instability of the substructures of the Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil, which affects political and social sectors, reflecting the pandemic of 2020 (Sors-CoV-2), This situation does not ...

The striking phenomenon of growing urban violence and the expansion of the prison while a privileged mode of punishment in contemporary societies have increasingly attracted the attention of researchers for the description ...

This article explains the evolution of prison policies in Argentina and Chile after the dual transition to neoliberalism and democracy addressing in particular the renewal of correctionalist prison rationalities propelled ...

In this article, using a quantitative approach, we analyze interpersonal, inmate-on-inmate physical violence in Chilean prisons, using administrative records on collective violence, provided by the Prison Service for the ...