The crossroads of penitentiary policies in Latin America
There is a dialectical dilemma regarding prison systems, between resocializing models and those based on the limitation of human rights and the punishment of persons deprived of liberty.
How to deal with the increasing prison population in Latin America?
In Brazil, there are 800,000 prisoners, almost 7% of the world’s prison population, and in Mexico there are more than 220,000.