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7 - Life in Prison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2021

Marcelo Bergman  and
Gustavo Fondevila
Marcelo Bergman
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
Gustavo Fondevila
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico
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Summary

Chapter 7 presents a description of daily prison life in order to evaluate prison environments and rehabilitation programs. Based on inmates’ self-reports from surveys, we analyze the depth and impact of overcrowding, the supply of basic services (food and health), rehabilitation and training programs (schooling and work inside prisons), health services, social life, and criminal networks. We show that the supply of goods and services in most prisons is deficient and creates profit opportunities for criminal networks; that most rehabilitation programs fail; and that preparations for reentry are very poor, contributing to high rates of recidivism.

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Overpopulationprison living conditionSrehabilitation programscrime in prisoncriminal networkwork in prison
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Prisons and Crime in Latin America , pp. 139 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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