El nacimiento de la reinserción como fin de la pena en México

Abstract

The initiative of reforms to the Constitution of 1857, proposed by Venustiano Carranza to the 1917 Constituent Assembly, in
particular article 18, inaugurates an unfinished discussion on penitentiary system in Mexico, with four main aspects: the penitentiary system and the regime which must be adopted, the end to the prison sentence and the means to comply. Thus, Article 18 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States has undergone a series of modifications that have led us to move from regeneration as an end to punishment, to rehabilitation, and from this to the present of reinsertion. We consider
—and prove this would be purpose of the present work— that has prevailed the vision to the 1917 Constituent Assembly, that the end of the penalty, before and now, is to provide the now called sentenced the indispensable tools to be reintegrated to society.