siccio di confidenti e sp.ie, che approfittano delta maggiore liberta di movimento dei detenuti per ottenere informazioni che spesso vengono usate per estendere o consolidare i capi d'accusa. In questo modo, la prigione cessa di essere un semplice luogo di custodia e diventa un complemento dell'attivita poliziesca. Viene anche analizzato il cosiddetto « sistema dei gradi » che, ufficialmente, dovrebbe servire al reinserimento dei reclusi nel tessuto sociale, mentre in realta non e che uno strumento di degradazione e abbrutimento degli individui, per renderli piu remissivi e docili. SUMMARY To-day, Spanish prison organisation is said to be « semi-open», it is characterized by a sort of liberality, which could seem strange in a strict totalitarian regime was Spain has been until very recent days. Actually, this is not a gift granted by the State, but the consequence of a continuous struggle against rules and restriction of prison life, undertaken by all the convicts together without any separation between v political» and « common » off enders. Anarchist convicts contributed greatly to this solidarity, while Communist ones represented a clearage element, especially when they began to be numerous inside Spanish prisons. In fact, Communist convicts consider themselves as strictly « political » convicts, separated from « common » offenders, and in this way they break the front of the struggle inside jails. The article demonstrates also that the liberality of the « semi-open » regime is only appearent because prison of,ficers have been able to adapt their means of repression to the new situation. For instance, they use extensively police confidants and spies who take advantage of the greater movement freedom enjoied by the convicts, in order to get informations which are of ten used to extend convictions and confirm charges of offence. In this way, the prison ends being a simple place of conviction and becames a complement of police activity. The article analyzes also the so-called «< system of degrees » which, officially, aims to re-abilitate convicts into the society, while actually it is only a mean of degradation and umiliation of men, in order to make them more submissive and docile. 14
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