No. 30: Year 2024
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Mexico City as a prison: The origins of Santiago Tlatelolco (1841–1857)

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  • Andrés David Muñoz Cogaría
Andrés David Muñoz Cogaría
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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Published 2024-06-26

Keywords

  • Criminality,
  • Federal District,
  • justice,
  • Mexico City,
  • prison,
  • 19th century
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How to Cite

Mexico City as a prison: The origins of Santiago Tlatelolco (1841–1857). (2024). Letras Históricas E-ISSN: 2448-8372, 30, 19 pp. https://doi.org/10.31836/lh.30.7460

Abstract

The objective of this article is to study the origins of the Santiago Tlatelolco prison in Mexico City. Based on archival materials and hemerography, it is intended to provide a comprehensive view of this institution, studying both the projects and the events that shaped it, as well as the discourses, ideas and representations of rulers, judges and lawyers, regarding the work of inmates, between 1841 and 1857. The hypothesis of the present work sustains that the law of reform of the Mexican prisons of January 27, 1840, helped to its configuration as places of punishment, being Santiago Tlatelolco a pioneering institution in the field of penal reform.

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