Prison Service Journal: 229

This issue has a special focus on the informal dynamics of survival in Latin American prisons.

In this edition:

• Surviving in the New Mass Carceral Zone, by Sacha Darke and Chris Garces
• Neoliberal Penology and Criminal Finance in Honduras, by Jon Horne Carter
• Prisoner Self-Governance and Survival in a Nicaraguan City Police Jail, by Julienne Weegels
• Formal and informal controls and punishment: The production of order in the prisons of São Paulo, by Camila Nunes Dias and Fernando Salla
• Movement between and beyond walls: Micropolitics of incitements and variations among São Paulo’s Prisoners’ Movement the ‘PCC’ and the Prison System, by Karina Biondi
• When prisoners make the prison. Self-rule in Venezuelan prisons, by Andrés Antillano
• From The Panopticon To The Anti-Panopticon: The ‘Art Of Government’ In The Prison Of San Pedro (La Paz, Bolivia), by Francesca Cerbini
• The Blind Panopticon: Prisoners’ subversion of the prison in Ecuador, 1875–2014, by Jorge Núñez and Jennifer Fleetwood
• An Insider’s View of Prison Reform in Ecuador, by Pieter Tritton with Jennifer Fleetwood
• ‘It was already in the ghetto’: Rap, religion and crime in the prison Interview with Djalma Oliveira Rios, aka ‘Cascão’, interviewed by Karina Biondi
• Hearing the voices of Brazilian correction officers, by Maria Lucia Karam and Hildebrando Ribeiro Saraiva Jr
• The Policy Challenges of Informal Prisoner Governance, by Fiona Macaulay
• Advancing Security and Human Rights by the Controlled Organisation of Inmates, by Mirte Postema, James Cavallaro and Ruhan Nagra