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Prison, mobile phones and internet access: elements for a cartography

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/30730252.8486
Luis Alberto Triana Llano Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Starting from the analysis of the technological-social phenomenon that represents accessing the Internet and using mobile phones in prison, a phenomenon that involves different actors and that has significant implications in the lives of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PPL), it is analyzed from the horizon of human rights, the legal mandate of resocialization and from the punitivist-prohibitionist perspectives, the use -prohibited or not- of mobile phones and access to the Internet in prisons is analyzed globally, exploring advances, promises and implications of use in different agents involved, configuring the technological-social-penitentiary phenomenon in the framework of knowledge and power relations, the evident ones and the underlying ones; showing these relations of knowledge and power in a cartography of the use of mobile phones and Internet access devices in the world.

keywords: Internet access, digital exclusion, mobile phones in prison, persons deprived of liberty (PDL)
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Triana Llano, L. A. (2026). Prison, mobile phones and internet access: elements for a cartography. Revista Arista Jurídico-Política, 1(1), 77-95. https://doi.org/10.22490/30730252.8486 (Original work published 2024)

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