Prevention of Deviant Pathways and Rehabilitation from Criminal Activities: Social School by “O Companheiro” Providing an Alternative to the Prison System

During the Restoration and the Second Republic, up until the outbreak of the Civil War, the prison system that was developed in Spain had a markedly liberal character. This system had begun to acquire robustness and institutional credibility from the first dec- ade of the 20th Century onwards, reaching a peak in the early years of the government of the Second Republic. This process resulted in the establishment of a penitentiary sys- tem based on the widespread and predominant values of liberalism. That liberal belief system espoused the defence of social harmony, property and the individual, and penal practices were constructed on the basis of those principles. Subsequently, the Civil War and the accompanying militarist culture altered the prison system, transforming it into an instrument at the service of the conflict, thereby wiping out the liberal agenda that had been nurtured since the mid-19th Century.

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Reconstruction of Life Imprisonment in Prison System in Indonesia

Jurnal Daulat Hukum ◽

10.30659/jdh.v2i4.8348 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 499

Author(s):

Boma Wira Gumilar ◽

Gunarto Gunarto ◽

Akhmad Khisni

Keyword(s):

Justice System ◽

Criminal Code ◽

Prison System ◽

Penal System ◽

Legal Research ◽

Life Imprisonment ◽

The Public ◽

Prison Life ◽

The Future ◽

Research Types

The most important part in a Book of Criminal Law (Penal Code) is a prison, because the prison contains rules about the size and implementation of the criminal. The position of life imprisonment in the national criminal justice system is still considered relevant as a means of crime prevention, it can be seen from the number of offenses punishable with life imprisonment. However, life imprisonment is considered contrary to the penal system. This study aims to investigate the implementation of life imprisonment, weaknesses, and the solution in the future. The approach used in the study is a non-doctrinal legal research with socio-legal research types (Juridical Sociological).The results of research studies show that life imprisonment is contrary to prison system, and life imprisonment become an obstacle to fostering convicts back into society. Bill Criminal Code of September 2019 can be used as a solution to life imprisonment change in the future. Presented advice, in order to be disseminated to the application of the criminal purpose of the Criminal Code of Prison adopted in the future, so that the public and experts no longer make the criminal as a form of retaliation.Keywords: Reconstruction; Crime; Prison; Life Imprisonment; System; Corrections.

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A burocracia penitenciarista: Estudo sobre a configuração da gestão prisional no Brasil

10.31012/978-65-5861-207-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Felipe Athayde Lins de Melo

Keyword(s):

Prison System ◽

Prison Management ◽

Third Line ◽

Criminal Groups ◽

Professional Formation

This book deals with the emergence of prison management in Brazil, understanding it as an effect of forces between different orders of the penitentiary apparatus, in which the Justice and Security bundles are highlighted, based on disputes and accommodations between actors, institutions and perspectives that, within each order or in their external interactions, configure the dynamics of the Brazilian Penitentiary Administration, within which a penitentiary bureaucracy is produced, specialized in mediating the conflicts and the approximations between the orders. In recent times, these mediations also suffer the influence of a third line of force, represented by the criminal groups originating inside prisons. Traveling thousands of kilometers through prisons, suburbs, government palaces and courtroom hallways, the study describes the constant updating of the brazilian penitentiary apparatus, which operates with the goal of ensuring it's reproduction by different strategies of accomodation of Law resulting from the preponderance of Security in the correlation of forces, which manifests in the composition, the functioning, the characterization and the processes of professional formation of the penitentiarist bureaucracy, comprehended as a diffuse and fragmented body that, far from characterizing a rationalization of the prison system, manifests itself, above all, as a government mentality.

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Ghana ThinkTank

Transfers ◽

10.3167/trans.2016.060111 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 115-121

Author(s):

Christopher Robbins ◽

Maria del Carmen Montoya ◽

John Ewing

Keyword(s):

El Salvador ◽

Prison System ◽

Think Tanks ◽

Developed World ◽

First World ◽

The U.S

Ghana ThinkTank has been “Developing the First World” since 2006. We collect problems in the so-called developed world, and send them to think tanks we established in Cuba, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, El Salvador, and the U.S. prison system to analyze and solve. Our network continues to grow . . .

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Maximum Security

Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien ◽

10.3224/fzg.v26i1.05 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (1-2020) ◽

pp. 71-84

Author(s):

Margo Okazawa-Rey ◽

Gwyn Kirk

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Air Force ◽

International Security ◽

Armed Forces ◽

Prison System ◽

Correctional Facilities ◽

Latina Women ◽

Physical Force ◽

Maximum Security ◽

Class Youth

Okazawa-Rey and Kirk argue that the term maximum security, used in the context of the prison system, is an oxymoron. Jails, prisons, and other ‘correctional’ facilities provide no real security for communities, guards and other prison officials, or inmates. Imprisoning two million people, building more prisons, identifying poor and working-class youth of colour as ‘gang members,’ and criminalizing poor Black and Latina women does not increase security. Rather, the idea of security must be redefined in sharp contrast to everyday notions of personal security that are based on the protection of material possessions by locks and physical force, as well as prevailing definitions of national and international security based on a militarization that includes the police, border patrols, and armed forces such as the Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force. To achieve genuine security, we must address the major sources of insecurity: economic, social, and political inequalities among and within nations and communities. The continual objectification of ‘others’ is a central mechanism underlying systems of oppression—and insecurity—based on class, race, gender, nation, and other significant lines of difference.

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A double-edged sword: Children’s experiences of visiting a parent in prison in Scotland

Probation Journal ◽

10.1177/02645505211025592 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026455052110255

Author(s):

Kelly Lockwood ◽

Tony Long ◽

Nancy Loucks ◽

Ben Raikes ◽

Kathryn Sharratt

Keyword(s):

Prison System ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

History Of

Prison visits are recognised as an important feature of a humane prison system, providing important benefits for prisoners and their family in maintaining ties (McCarthy and Adams, 2017). Scotland has a history of penal welfarism and a right-based agenda in relation to visits (McCarthy and Adams, 2017); however, there is a lack of research that focuses on visits in the context of Scottish prisons. Equally, there is limited research that considers the perspective of children visiting a parent in custody. This paper explores the experiences of children visiting a parent in prison in Scotland, highlighting lessons for policy and practice.

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