Revista de Historia de las Prisiones

Beyond the “punitive swamps”: the prisons of the province of Buenos Aires according to the First National Prison Census of 1906

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The Prison Census of 1906 was the first attempt by the National State to have a record of the situation of the penitentiary system throughout its territory, after almost half a century of investments by provincial governments in these institutions. It was thus transformed into a kind of balance that the national government itself tried to make. In it, we analyzed the information provided on Buenos Aires prisons, for which the directors of the same answered a questionnaire regarding their capacity, safety and hygiene conditions, discipline, work, food and expenditure budget. The result is a diverse and complex panorama of the prison realities of the six penal establishments that operated to that date. It deserves a more dynamics explanation than its homogeneous reduction to the situation of a “punitive swamp”, due to a history that not only accounts for this diversity in the state of the punishment establishments, but also for the will of the State and its protagonists to comply with the proposed objectives, beyond their scope.

Hidden correction lines. The writing notebooks in the school of the municipal prison of Querétaro, México at the beginning of the Porfiriato

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This paper studies the writing notebooks produced by prisoners in the municipal jail of the city of Querétaro, Mexico, at the beginning of the Porfiriato. The aim of these brief writings is to show the writing practices in prison spaces during that time. Therefore, the writing notebooks in these contexts offer a wealth of perspectives that can be taken up in future works in Latin America.

The Impact of the Media on the Construction of Punitive Power from a Historical Perspective. The Case of “La Voz del Interior” (1904-1908)

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The Punitive Power carried out by the executive agencies of the State is often conditioned by the Media Power which, through its discourses, can mediate in the interpretation of reality, limit its knowledge and distort the events it reports. On the other hand, we find two degrees of criminalization, the primary one, which is the one carried out by the legislator when typifying a crime, and the secondary one, which is the one carried out by the executive agencies at the time of selecting the persons who carry out these typical conducts. Of course, this selection is not carried out at random, or at least it should not be, but is the result of the management of a set of state agencies that make up the criminal system. In this article we will try to highlight these issues using as a documentary source the newspaper La Voz del Interior in its first years of circulation in the streets of Córdoba (1904-1908). The main objective of this article is none other than to find out if there was any kind of implication between media criminalization and the application of punitive power by executive agencies.

SABRINA CASTRONUOVO, Cárcel común, preso político. Represión y tortura en tiempos de Frondizi (1958-1962)

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Lila Caimari & Diego Galeano (Editores), Policía y sociedad en la Argentina (siglos XIX y XX)

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