La pobreza de los internos de la cárcel de Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México/The poverty of the inmates at the jail in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Abstract

Prisons have always been populated by the poor, or those who were not successful in the labor market, the problem now is that those poor prisoners are also attacked by the organized crime groups that control Mexican prisons. The prison of Chetumal is a prison where you can look the poverty of the inmates, is one of the worst evaluated by the National Commission on Human Rights. When we know closely the stories of prisoners, we can understand how is constructed the criminal behavior and reflect on how the prison serves to reproduce violence and poverty under the gaze of power