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  • Essay / Violence in prison - 2662

    When we carry out research on daily life in prison, we encounter two typical but far from ideal situations: either social imaginaries cloud our judgment, or the information provided by prisons does -themselves hide certain weak or bad aspects that I do not want to make public. You can also find information on television, but most of the time, they exaggerate or minimize the facts. To obtain more reliable information we must have access to people who work or have worked in this institution, and these will be the sources of this essay. We will describe and give examples of violence in prison according to three types of violence: sexual, physical and psychological violence. First of all, one of the types of violence in prison – which is currently on the rise around the world – is sexual. This type of violence can be carried out either by force or by payment. The difference between the two is that the former involves hitting, beating, punching, etc. to the victim - we will highlight the difference in treatment that homosexuals and heterosexuals receive - while the second involves giving the victim money or other benefits. As for sexual violence by force, there are slight dissimilarities between the violence suffered by homosexual and heterosexual prisoners. It is very common for a homosexual imprisoned for the first time to be taken by another prisoner as a stable couple. Therefore, the new arrival in the prison must be - in the strict sense of the term - the servant of the other prisoner and not "everyone's meat". He or she must clean, iron clothes, etc. Another typical case is when homosexuals are forced to have sex or provide sexual favors to other prisoners under the threat of harming them otherwise...... middle of paper ... ..ity and as such it is necessary to establish certain categories through which we can understand it better and more deeply. This essay was developed taking into account three major spheres of life through which we analyzed daily life in prison: sexual, physical and psychological violence. As a complex subject, these categories are not static; they are related to each other and are the causes and consequences of themselves. This essay was carried out using information provided by people who work or have worked in the institution and who have strived to explain the situation as objectively as possible through their own experience without exaggerating or minimizing the facts. Unfortunately, as we said at the beginning of this essay, prisons are institutions that do not want to show their weaknesses or problems, which is why the names of those interviewed will not be mentioned..