Procesos de resocialización y su incidencia en la subjetividad de dos ex internos del establecimiento penitenciario de mediana seguridad carcelario de Cali

Abstract

The objective of this study is to describe the processes of resocialization and it’s impact on the subjectivity of two former inmates of the Penitentiary Establishment of Medium Security in the city of Cali. This is approached from a paradigm of qualitative-hermeneutic approach, since it allows to interpret and understand social phenomena that are established within the penitentiary center. In this sense, the research was developed under a case study with descriptive method and narrative design in order to highlight the discourses, experiences and signifiers around the re-socialization process and how these intramural practices transform and constitute the prison subject.

Indeed, these realities are managed to contrast critically with the theoretical perspective of the French thinker Michael Foucault, taking into account one of his main works Watch and Punish: birth of the prison (1975). The results of the study reveal that; the processes of re-socialization executed within the EPMSC present major problems during its application due to multiple factors such as overcrowding, corruption, and unhealthiness; In short, it was also possible to show that the daily life of the inmates is determined mainly by their own supremacy and organized hierarchy, exposing the underlying cultural reflex of a society that reproduces crime.