The THE PRISON ISSUE IN CHILE AND ITS COLONIAL CONTINUOUS

A CRITICAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO AN ANACHRONIC PRISON MODEL

Abstract

The Chilean penitentiary system is immersed in a complex, extensive and serious crisis recognized by authorities, operators of the criminal justice system and academia, which can even be defined as structural, for which there is consensus on the need for relevant changes so that the system prison system in response to the multiple requirements for which it exists. This work goes further and points to the need to overcome the existing penitentiary model due to its functional obsolescence, the enormous legal-normative deficiency and the astonishing violation of human rights that it causes. The analysis focuses, through various disciplines, on a critical genealogical analysis of the prison in Chile and its various transformations to the current reality that account for a historical and epistemic continuum anchored in the colonial era and whose political meaning is the imprisonment of the subaltern.