Abstract

BELLO RAMIREZ, Jei Alanis  and  PARRA GALLEGO, Germán. Death Prisons: Necropolitics and the Prison System in ColombiaPrisões da morte: necropolítica e sistema carcerário na Colômbia. univ.humanist. [online]. 2016, n.82, pp.365-391. ISSN 0120-4807.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.uh82.cmns.

This article proposes a reflection around the State punitive exercise with the purpose of making evident that the neoliberal project in Colombia -in progress since the late 20^th century- has sustained itself on the expansion of the prison system as a strategy to control those social groups alienated by the market and the intersectionality matrixes of gender, race, class, and sexuality. We argument that in Colombian prisons a necropolitic field has been shaped, exposing those imprisoned to death thresholds, both physical and social. We develop this idea by means of a critical analysis of the reports on human rights in prisons - using interpretive categories of the black feminism such as the prison-industrial complex and intersectionality - to point out that in prisons a rationale beyond biopolitics takes place, establishing death and dehumanization as day-to-day elements of its workings.

Keywords : necropolitics; intersectionality; prison-industrial complex; Colombian State.

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