carcel


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carcel

(ˈkɑːsəl)
n
obsolete a former French unit of light equal to about 9.74 candelas
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Archer and Janey trailed their long silk draperies up to the drawing-room, where, while the gentlemen smoked below stairs, they sat beside a Carcel lamp with an engraved globe, facing each other across a rosewood work-table with a green silk bag under it, and stitched at the two ends of a tapestry band of field-flowers destined to adorn an "occasional" chair in the drawing- room of young Mrs.
In the "best parlour," with its black horse-hair and mahogany weakly illuminated by a gurgling Carcel lamp, I listened every evening to another and more delicately shaded version of the Starkfield chronicle.
No podemos dejar de mencionar los aportes de Palma y Fernandez (2006), donde muestran la vida de los criminales tras las rejas, la que asume forma infrahumana y que se convertiria con el paso del tiempo en un verdadero infierno, caracterizado por la violencia, abuso, hacinamiento y abandono, dando forma a la percepcion que tenia la sociedad chilena de la carcel, un lugar en donde los delincuentes debian purgar sus penas por los crimenes cometidos.
Esta congregacion tenia una larga tradicion en la custodia y tratamiento de ninas y mujeres en situacion de conflicto con la justicia o con la sociedad (4), razon por la que eran las indicadas para administrar, vigilar y controlar la nueva carcel de mujeres que la clase adinerada bogotana pedia constantemente.
Asi, la carcel en tanto agencia penal del Estado destinada a reproducir y perpetrar las desigualdades sociales, politicas y economicas materializa, consolida y potencia la selectividad del sistema penal sobre un sector de la poblacion que, en Latinoamerica, se caracteriza por la negritud (Segato, 2007) y que en Argentina se particulariza y equipara a la juventud y la pobreza (Daroqui et al., 2006).
It later became known as 'Carcel y Presidio Correcional' and could accommodate 1,127 prisoners.
Beyond readily apparent thematic parallels and shared narrative elements, Prison and Carcel have two important points of contact that also serve as a means to examine their unique aspects.