Call for papers. Revista Prisiones N° 10. Second semester 2026

Special Issue: Education in prison and after incarceration

Call for papers

For this tenth number of Prisiones journal, we are launching this call for contributions to a special issue dedicated to educational experiences within the prison context and after incarceration.

Argentina is a leading country at both regional and global level in the development of university programmes within the prison context. In 2022, thirty-four of its seventy public universities were running programmes in seventeen of the country’s twenty-four prison systems. Furthermore, since the enactment of the National Education Act in 2006, there has been a deepening process of establishing and consolidating public primary and secondary schools within prisons across all the country’s jurisdictions. With its variations, this dual process has broadened access to education within the prison context, increased the number of external educators working within prisons, and reshaped power relations and governance within prisons.

Consequently, in recent years, there has been an increase in local academic output on education in prisons, with works that recount the first-person experiences of students and faculty taking centre stage. These highly relevant narratives have been complemented, to a lesser extent, by external research analysing educational experiences in the context of incarceration, underpinned by rigorous empirical studies.

Preference will be given to works that aim to:

Provide detailed and rigorous descriptions of educational programmes in the context of incarceration and post-incarceration, at any educational level, with particular emphasis on those that seek to engage with the existing literature on these and other programmes.
Detailed and rigorous descriptions of educational programmes at any level in other countries, which serve as a basis for future comparative research.
Empirical studies analysing key aspects of education in prisons and after incarceration at any educational level.
With the aim of including research in this issue that reflects the realities of different geographical contexts, articles will be accepted in Spanish, English and Portuguese, with the Journal providing translation for publication.

Terms and conditions for papers

Paper submission: November 10th, 2026
Language: Spanish, English or Portuguese (Journal will translate It into Spanish).
Style guidelines and peer review system in https://www.derecho.uba.ar/publicaciones/revista-ceep/pautas.php
Submission of papers and queries: prisionesrevistapenal@derecho.uba.ar