El castigo: difícil tarea para la administración de justicia

Abstract

Within the broad context that implies the analysis of punishment as a legal and social institution, this article mentions only two elements which it considers central, to describe what could be termed the current punishment administration system: prison and the judicial apparatus. It is not the intention of the author to make either an exhaustive analysis of these two figures, or a diagnosis. His main objective is to show, through statistical facts and personal considerations, the issues the current system has to deal with if it wants to stop being the creator of negative situations, which in the final analysis seriously question its efficiency, legality and legitimacy.