Prison space as social and political control

Oxford University Press, 2023

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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020

This article seeks to analyse the paradox of freedom and imprisonment, reflecting on the connections between and nuances of intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) and women's imprisonment in the Global South, particularly in Perú. The story follows Maria, a woman serving a 14-year sentence for the homicide of her husband, an act she committed after experiencing 20 years of psychological and physical abuse. I have chosen to focus on her ambivalence towards her experience of IPVA, using Goffman's (1961) concept of the 'total institution'; I suggest that Maria was living under a patriarchal and symbolic total institution, a prison-like home (Avni 1991). Following this, while imprisoned for the homicide of her husband, Maria was physically incapacitated in a co-governed, patriarchal, nation-state prison. Nevertheless, simultaneously, in this custodial setting, she found a semi-autonomous path to reinforce her sense of agency and to construct interpersonal relationships that have enabled her to question the preceding patriarchal norms.

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021

This article analyzes the administration of women's prisons in Argentina during the process of state consolidation, using two prison cases: the Correctional Institution for Women (Santa Fe) and the Olmos Prison for Women (Buenos Aires). In both cases, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd's administration faced resistance from several state and non-state agents. We revisit an old issue using a new gender approach to investigate the relationship between female punishment, civil society, the state, its agents. The aim is to contribute toward a historical, non-androcentric analysis of women's prisons using archival research.

Journal for the Study of Radicalism - JSR, 14(1), Michigan State University (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/753498/pdf), 2020

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Ámbitos Feministas , 2021

Previous to Chile’s uprising in 2019, Colectivo de Mujeres Sobrevivientes Siempre Resistentes (CMSSR), an all-women collective formed in 2014, had already taken on the task of publicly denouncing and demanding state recognition for the sexual violations political prisoners had endured during Chile’s dictatorial regime. The principal aims of CMSSR are: 1.) To convict and charge former military officers responsible for perpetrating acts of sexual torture against political prisoners during the Pinochet regime (1973- 1990); 2.) Convert one of the former detention centers “Venda Sexy” 4 into the first memory site dedicated to women victims and survivors; 3.) Educate the public on the pervasiveness of sexual violence in Chile. This article looks at the ways in which CMSSR’s engagement with younger women and former women militants and current activists have enacted newfound networks of solidarities that have resulted in a more public surfacing of memories pertaining to sexual political torture in present-day Chile. This study traces the emergence of the collective in interviews carried out with two of CMSSRs activists, Beatriz Bataszew and Ximena Goecke, one year prior to Chile’s uprising during the summer of 2018. The difficulty the collective has encountered memorializing “Venda Sexy” has elicited a multitude of political tensions that have oscillated between the bounds of history and memory which in turn have both centered and marginalized attention away from women’s political contributions during and after the dictatorship. The surfacing of women’s stories in detention has simultaneously aided in unearthing memories around women perpetrators, a historical aspect of political detentions that has been further marginalized from discussion; some of the most heinous crimes committed during the dictatorship were carried out in “Venda Sexy” by the lead female officer, Ingrid Olderock. In the transcribed interviews presented here, both Bataszew and Goecke shed light on the origins of CMSSR, their previous militancy’s in Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) and Partido Socialista (PS), their work as feminist-activists along with their collective actions and collaborations to unearth the more hidden herstories that have given meaning to their plight.

Vibrant - Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2022

The article explores the connections between gender, prison, and activism in AMPARAR, an association that works with prisoners’ families in São Paulo, Brazil. The ethnography is developed in the activities of the association and in the monitoring of the connections mobilized by these activities. AMPARAR’s work is located in an institutional web that includes non-governmental organizations and public institutions that produce both a violating state and a state that claims rights and guarantees. AMPARAR and the family members articulated by the association put a human face and body to complaints, and identify violence and humiliation perpetrated not only on their bodies, but on their husbands and children deprived of their freedom. Gender and sexuality are languages that allow such evocation and contribute to women producing a place of mediators and rapporteurs for the abuses that occur within prisons.

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate the main characteristics of women prisoners in the "El Buen Pastor-", in Barranquilla (Colombia). The project was thought as an integrated program based on a differential gender framework, which would promote a more suitable reinsertion process and the development of new initiatives for equal penitentiary treatment and policies in Colombia. The instrument was the survey ENMURE, which focuses on women prisoners. The results indicated high levels of poverty among women in family conflict situations, with no formal education, and having experienced gender violence and consumption of drugs, previous to be in prison.

Biography, 2013

Reading prison writings must in turn demand the corresponding activist counterapproach to that of passivity, aesthetic gratifi cation, and the pleasures of consumption. -Barbara Harlow Primero soy penitenciario, segundo Capellan, tercero soy sacerdote. [I am fi rst and foremost a penitentiary offi cer, second, I am a chaplain, and third, a priest.] Nosotras queremos contar cómo sobrevivimos con alegría y en conjunto. [We want to tell how we survived with joy and collectively.] -Blanca Becher (qtd. in Pertot) We were survivors of secret detention camps and torture centers. We had witnessed the torments endured by our parents, siblings, friends, comrades, and children. We were at the hands of the military dictatorship ruling our