The Mata Escura Penal Compound: An Analysis of the Prison-Neighbourhood Nexus in Northeast Brazil

Moore, Hollis

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61499-7_8

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“…Despite these physical walls, there is no actual barrier that fully neutralises interactions and key communications between the 'worlds' inside and outside the prisons. Some researchers have shown that there is no such thing as two distinct or unconnected worlds -they are thoroughly interconnected (Adorno & Salla, 2007;Biondi, 2010;Dias, 2011;Dieter & Freitas jr, 2020;Feltran, 2008;Godoi, 2017;Manso, 2012;Moore, 2021;Willis, 2015). Prison has therefore failed to neutralise criminals and has actually made it possible for gangs to be founded and organised, and have their power expanded beyond prisons.…”

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Brazilian prisons in times of mass incarceration: Ambivalent transformations

Santo

2022

Howard J Crime Justice

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Most of the scholarship on the 'punitive turn' has claimed that there have been two main trends in punishment since the 1970s: the rise of incarceration rates (quantitative dimension) and the worsening of prison conditions (qualitative dimension). Scholars argue that, in parallel with the rise of mass incarceration, there has been a fall of the rehabilitative ideal. In this view, prisons in core countries have basically operated as a warehouse, working towards neutralisation and incapacitation. Both trends are also viewed as reflecting a global convergence of penal policies. The analysis of the Brazilian case challenges this supposed universality. Drawing on official prison data, reports from non-governmental organisations, and secondary data, I argue that mass incarceration has not been accompanied by the same qualitative changes to prisons in 'Western countries' and Brazil. First, features of the so-called warehouse prison, such as low levels of prison activities, have always been present in Brazilian prisons, and are not an effect of mass incarceration. Furthermore, the consequences of mass incarceration in Brazilian prisons have, in fact, been ambivalent and, in some cases, may have alleviated inmates' suffering, rather than intensifying experiences of confinement. Finally, instead of This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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