Las cuadrillas de presos: constructores tradicionales en los caminos de la modernización. Valle del Cauca 1912-1915

Abstract

The gangs are, used to provide workers to the way that should allow the progress of the Valle del Cauca toward modernization, is presented as a great irony, in which a figure of colonial origins, becomes a tool of the modern century XX. Investigate the reasons that allowed their survival into the newly founded department of Valle between 1912-1915, to know if it was an economic strategy or to part of the criminal justice policies, which were the institutions that govern this activity, the conditions work to which prisoners were subjected, the legal benefits that derive participate as workers in the crews of prisoners and the perception that the community leader of the era had on the effectiveness of the work performed by inmates, are some of the questions that are intended to dissipate within this research