State, society and the birth of the prison in Latin America

Prisons are places of punishment that accompany us from far away, serving for a long time mainly to guard the accused until his trial and enforcement of the award. Nevertheless, with the emergence of disciplinary society, deprivation of liberty became a feather increasingly used to be legally recognized by the criminal codes. This article aims, from an optics-criminal prison, consider this passage from the old to the new regime in Latin America, emphasizing the emergence of this treadmill model prisons, as was the case in Brazil of Correctional Homes, or the Penitentiary, well known in other countries in the region. The emergence of these new institutions of nature were not the result of a homogeneous process, nor responded to the same concepts in Europe and North America.