Crimen y castigo: prisiones y confinamiento a finales de la colonia. La real cárcel de Arequipa, 1780-1824∗.

The present study analyses reclusion spaces and mechanisms in the former Intendancy of Arequipa, towards the end of the colonial period. Exhaustive detail on organisation, maintenance, infrastructure, security, economy, and salubriousness, concerning various confinement centres will be provided. This paper studies the meaning of the jail in the Ancient Regime, taking in consideration the peripheric experience of an arequipenian jail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]