Política penitenciaria en Río Negro (Argentina). Notas para un estudio contextualizado de las sinuosidades producidas entre 2003 y 2017

Abstract

This work reviews the development of prisons in the Province of Río Negro, north of the Argentine Patagonia, with the interest of studying its changing current prison policies. Such a journey can contribute to the understanding of the naturalized police-penitentiary role of local coexistence with the rehabilitation and progressive ideal of punishment established by current regulations. The provincial government that took office in 2003 overcame a penitentiary crisis from a reform that was resisted and criticized by the displaced police sector, which later achieved a continuity of “tacit” management of the prisons. The change of the Executive in 2011 resumed the Law by a Civil Penitentiary Service that led to a crisis of escapes, evasions and riots that ceased with a counter-reform framed in the turn of security policies and the re-officialization of provincial prisons legislated in extraordinary sessions December 2016. From a descriptive methodological approach, proposes an evolution of the prisons in Río Negro, where the recent topic prioritizes triangulation by analyzing the evolution of normative texts and discourse analysis of legislative verbatim versions.