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  • 7 - Life in Prison

  • Marcelo Bergman, Gustavo Fondevila
  • Book:
    Prisons and Crime in Latin America
    Published online:
    19 February 2021
    Print publication:
    11 March 2021, pp 139-158

  • 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.