Prison in Spain and social exclusion policies

Abstract

This paper aims to take a close look at the reality of prison policies in Spain. In the following pages, we will try to demonstrate that criminal policies and prison policies have not gone hand in hand in the shift announced by Garland. According to him, Western criminal policies have shifted from a resocialisation-orientated punitive model to an incapacitation-based penal model. We will focus on demonstrating that prison policies have somehow tried to make up for the punitive rigorism imposed by criminal policies. Likewise, we will try to prove that such resistance is considerably weakened when it comes to foreign persons, owing to constant interference caused by legislation on aliens.