Series | SAIL
Edited book | Lingue, linguaggi e spazi: per una diversa visione del carcere e della mediazione
Chapter | Il carcere visto da dentro

Il carcere visto da dentro

Abstract

Prison is the most widely used punishment globally. There are ten million prisoners worldwide. A number that makes it almost impossible for the punishment to actually serve a social rehabilitation purpose. Prison, seen from the inside, is a place designed to produce pain. It is the place of public revenge. This is the demand that comes from outside society, all the more so in times of penal populism. Direct observation of the prison institutions is fundamental to understanding its actual not legal function.


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Submitted: March 12, 2024 | Published July 4, 2024 | Language: it

Keywords Detention rates • Mass incarceration • Alternative sanctions • Prison monitoring • Social matters • Prisoners rights

Copyright © 2024 Patrizio Gonnella. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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