Women in prison: historical overview on penalties and imprisonment of women in Paraguay -from the Colony until our days-

Abstract

From the originating days of it conquers luso-hispana in the new world, both of them men and them few women that arrived at these lands committed various types of long. that were sanctioned with detentions and several kinds of punishment. With the passing of the years, not only the European were sentenced, but also the Creole, mestizo and Indian. During the period colonial, to more than them transgressions common as the killings, robberies, disrespect to the authorities, is condemned it wizardry, prostitution, adultery and concubinage. The women that violated these two recent were punished with more severity that those men, accused in the same crime. In the first years of independent life, Governments followed by applying the ancient medieval laws and even with more rigors when it was treason to the homeland. Newly starting from 1870, is introduced regulatory more modern and has enacted new codes criminal. In the course of the century XX, another class of failures is added to them already mentioned as the traffic and consumption of drugs not authorized and, in them last years, several women are looked at involved in activities criminal as kidnappings and attacks terrorist. The present research tries to bring to the Social History a chapter little studied on the confinement of women in Paraguay.