Be a father in prison
Introduction
To understand and approach a definition of prison institutions, it is necessary.
Throughout history, the concept of prison in various ways has been defined, we can see that Goffman considers that prison is a “total institution” since it can be defined as a place of residence and work, where a large number ofIndividuals in the same situation, isolated from society for an appreciable period of time, share a daily routine, formally administered in their confinement
Developing
For other authors such as Hulman, prisons are the outcome of ways of acting and cooperation between various organizations, among which are: the police, the courts, the laws, the departments of Criminology, the Ministry of Justice and theParliament. All of them together create criminal law by building a specific reality. That is, prison is a social and cultural construction. The author considers that the individual is introduced into an artificial environment, creating fictional individuals who interact with each other and being away from their real environment.
In this regard, Garland to the set of laws, procedures, speeches and institutions that surround the criminal scope have described it as a penalty referring to the punishment that these institutions suppose.
The prison is part of the punishment, considering this as a social institution that helps to define the nature of our society, the type of relationships that compose it and the possible and stable life class. Prison is a form of substitute and subtle violence, a sufficiently discrete and negative way of remuneration that promotes the cultural acceptance of the majority of the population, resulting compatible with modern sensibilities and conventional restrictions against manifest physical violence.
Another contribution that we can find is that of Focault, this author defines the prison as the place where the penalty is executed and where the offender becomes the criminal, to the small alam of the criminal, that the apparatus itself of the punishment has manufactured asPoint of application of the power to punish and as an object of what is still called penitentiary science today. As a result, the author considers that crime is the revenge of prison against justice.
The prison, that region the most gloomy in the justice apparatus, is the place where the power to punish, which no longer dares to act on the discovered face, silently organizes a field of objectivity where, the punishment can function in the middle of the daytherapeutic, and register the sentence between the speeches of knowledge.
For Durkheim the prison has survived because he satisfies the popular or judicial desire to inflict punishment to the offenders and separate them from normal social life regardless of the costs or consequences in the long term
conclusion
There are authors such as Baratta who consider that jail is the last step in the hierarchical pyramid of society, that is, the author considers that the selection process begins before the intervention of the criminal system. With this, it refers to social and school discrimination, to the intervention of the control institutes of the deviation of minors, social assistance, etc. Through this, it generates social marginalization, especially recruited from the most disadvantaged areas of society. In addition, the author refers to the fact that jail has a contradictory function, on the one hand, he wants to reform, re -educate and include and on the other he is excluding them.
The author compares prisons with capitalism, referring to social and power relations that occur in prison subculture, since these are based on selfishness and illegal violence, where the weakest subjects are forced to functions to functionsof submission and exploitation. According to the author, to transform this before wanting to modify the excluded it is necessary to modify the exclusive society, thus reaching the root of the exclusion mechanism.
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