Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1 Introduction: Human Rights in Latin American Prisons: Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding -- Clara Burbano Herrera and Yves Haeck -- PART 1 -- Prisons: Intersectionalities and Contexts -- 2 Female Incarceration in Latin America and Mexico -- Coletta A. Youngers, Corina Giacomello and Gabriela Cruz -- 3 Reproductive Health and Rights in Prisons: Challenges and Opportunities for Latin America -- Carmen Cecilia Martínez López -- 4 Assessing State Compliance with Interim Measures Protecting Persons Deprived of Liberty in Latin America: Insights from the Case of Polay Campos v. Peru -- Clara Burbano Herrera and Luna Lanckvrind -- PART 2 -- Prisons: Crisis and Structural Problems -- 5 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Prison Policy in Latin America -- María Luisa Romero and Soledad Sánchez Jeanney -- 6 Addressing the Impact and Response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American Prisons -- José Luis Pérez Guadalupe and Lucia Nuñovero Cisneros -- 7 A Lost Critical Juncture: covid-19 in Brazilian Prisons -- Maíra Rocha Machado and Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos -- 8 Two Emergency Regimes: Prison, Judicial Intervention, and COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia -- Libardo Ariza and Mario Torres -- 9 Concluding Remarks: There Is the Need to Fundamentally Rethink Who Is Behind Bars, the Reasons Why, and the Conditions in Which They Are Held -- Yves Haeck and Clara Burbano Herrera -- Index.

Why are prisons in Latin America so violent, overcrowded, and marginalising—and what can human rights do about it? This book answers that urgent question through a bold interdisciplinary lens. You explore how law, poverty, gender, and race shape carceral practices, drawing on case studies, original fieldwork, and critical theory. It reveals how the pandemic reshaped incarceration and why global calls for decarceration often fall short. Featuring contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the book connects local realities to global debates. If you work on law, human rights, or justice systems, this book will challenge what you think you know.

English

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