Social Discipline and Internal Organization in Prison. Study about a Catalan Prison

Abstract

The artide shows the main results which stem from a reserch about the prison, focusing on the construction of internal order and on disciplinary change. First, the clasification and the penitentiary treatment developed by the LOGP are interpreted, as elements which redefine the space and the social relations which it sustains. Thereafter, the working of the progressive phases system implemented by the Catalan Autonomous Government is criticised, emphasizing its eficacy in the management of conflict, and in the consecution of institutional peace as a political objective. Then, the effects of the system of phases in relation to the stratification of prisoners in different subclasses are considered, and the disciplinary consequences are observed which this entails since it combines classification and treatment. Finally, an analysis of prison organization is conductal, in order to show the consistence of the system in the production of internal order from an alienated communication. The artide concludes saying that the system of phases, far from resocialization, as the Spanish Constitution points out, articulates itself in what constitutes new disciplinary forms, and those of order building inside the prison.