This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison
regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grounded in solid
ethnographic work, each chapter explores the informal dynamics of
prisons in diverse territories and countries of the region -
Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Puerto
Rico, Dominican Republic - while theorizing how day-to-day life for
the incarcerated has been forged in tandem between prison
facilities and the outside world. The editors and contributors to
this volume ask: how have fastest-rising incarceration rates in the
world affected civilians' lives in different national contexts? How
do groups of prisoners form broader and more integrated 'carceral
communities' across day-to-day relations of exchange and
reciprocity with guards, lawyers, family, associates, and assorted
neighbors? What differences exist between carceral communities from
one national context to another? Last but not least, how do
carceral communities, contrary to popular opinion, necessarily
become a productive force for the good and welfare of incarcerated
subjects, in addition to being a potential source of troubling
violence and insecurity? This edited collection represents the most
rigorous scholarship to date on the prison regimes of Latin America
and the Caribbean, exploring the methodological value of
ethnographic reflexivity inside prisons and theorizing how daily
life for the incarcerated challenges preconceptions of prisoner
subjectivity, so-called prison gangs, and bio-political order.
Sacha Darke is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of
Westminster, UK, Visiting Lecturer in Law at University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and Affiliate of King's Brazil Institute, King's
College London, UK. Chris Garces is Research Professor of
Anthropology at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and
Visiting Lecturer in Law at Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar,
Ecuador. Luis Duno-Gottberg is Professor at Rice University, USA.
He specializes in Caribbean culture, with emphasis on race and
ethnicity, politics, violence, and visual culture. Andres Antillano
is Professor in Criminology at Universidad Central de Venezuela,
Venezuala.
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