Riots or collective claim actions? Press discourses during COVID-19 about Peruvian prisons and prisoners.
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Lucia Bracco
lucia.bracco@pucp.pe
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Adriana Hildenbrand Mellet
adriana.hildenbrand@pucp.pe
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Ana Sofia Carranza Risco
carranza.as@pucp.edu.pe
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Valeria Lindley Llanos
valeria.lindley@pucp.edu.pe
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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-48672021000100169Abstract
Mass media has a leading role in the construction of social symbols, values, and practices. To identify the images of prisoners and prisons, in this article, we focus on the discourses of the Peruvian written press about prisoners’ collective actions (categorized as riots) in the context of COVID-19. Through critical discourse analysis, we analyze 81 notes from the seven most-read journals in Peru, which inform about the first collective claim actions in four prisons: Río Seco, Picsi, Castro Castro, and Anexo Chorrillos. The results are organized into three axes: (a) Explanation of the diaries about collective claim action; (b) Men’s prisons: Collective claim action defined as riots; and (c) Women’s prisons: Collective claim action defined as non-riots. We argue that the notes reproduce the image of prison as a punishment institution, with a tendency to delegitimize collective actions and to portray prisoners as subjects propelled by emotions with no possibility of establishing a dialogical encounter. Also, discourses are embedded with stereotypes of crime and gender. Mass media informs by simplifying the prison system and providing unidimensional images of prisons and prisoners. This makes it challenging to create holistic views that aid in understanding the hindering and claims for prisoners’ rights to establish processes of dialogue to construct alternative resolutions to violence.
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