Punishment or correction? A criminological approach to prison.

Abstract

It is determined whether the penalty and prison control imposed on those sentenced for their deviant behavior function as a social rehabilitator, taking as a starting point the deprivation of liberty of people who are serving a sentence or temporarily through preventive detention. The penalty and its doctrinal statements do not fulfill their social function of protecting and protecting the convicted person in order to reintegrate him into society as a productive entity away from any incidence that forces him to commit another offense; what is sought is to issue a well-founded criterion based on the profound failure of the prison in its objective of rehabilitating convicted persons.