Based largely on research completed in the North American context, scholars of prisons detail the multiple ways in which carceral practices extend beyond prison walls to transform a wide variety of spaces, ultimately assessing how carceral imaginaries inhabit the most intimate aspects of everyday life. In Latin America, this division between the inside and the outside of prison breaks down even further when read from the perspective of survival. Drawing on ethnographic research across Guatemala's penitentiary system, this article explores how the deep interdependencies that develop between male prisoners and female visitors sustain not just these prisoners and their visitors but also the prison system itself.

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La Visita：危地马拉的监狱和生存

主要基于在北美背景下完成的研究，监狱学者详细介绍了监狱实践延伸到监狱墙壁之外以改变各种空间的多种方式，最终评估了监狱想象如何居住在日常生活中最私密的方面。在拉丁美洲，从生存的角度来看，监狱内部和外部之间的这种划分甚至会更进一步。本文利用危地马拉监狱系统的民族志研究，探讨了男性囚犯和女性访客之间发展的深层相互依存关系如何不仅维持这些囚犯及其访客，而且还维持监狱系统本身。