Organized detained university students: a wedge in the solidity of the prison

una cuña en la solidez de la cárcel

Abstract

The way in which the participating students from university centers based in prisons in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, contributed their expert knowledge to face the contingency of confinement in confinement in the period of social, preventive and social isolation is presented and analyzed here. mandatory due to pandemic between the months of March and December 2020. In Argentine prisons tensions unfolded that resulted in overflows and deaths, but violence management practices were also revealed from the workplace and the leadership of university detainees. In this context, it is the prison government itself that came into play. The construction of power by these organized groups and the announced end of the dispersal of the actors in different penal units with the gradual return to the new normal, shows the danger that the most conservative security forces see in this form of management. . Ethnographic records, publications and documents collected in the mentioned period are used