Fugitive lives: post-prison survival circuitsAbstract
The aim of this article is to describe the nature of the displacements in the city produced by the event of imprisonment or its threat, in order to highlight the way in which imprisonment interferes in the lifestyles of people who have been imprisoned, as well as shaping circuits between the legal and the illegal in the urban perimeter. In the ethnographic micro-scenes presented here, the different configurations of what I call “prison escapes” are presented as a resource for survival and as drivers of movement around the city. In this way, it will be possible to observe the circulation produced by punitive devices, not only in the movement that leads to prison, but also in the escape routes used to escape the risks, threats and obstacles that this punitive machinery interposes in the trajectories and which become entangled in the fabrics of everyday life.
Prison; Occupations; Punitive machinery; Legal-bureaucratic labyrinth; Escaped lives