The rich debate on the notions of “self-governance” and “co-governance” in the recent literature on power and government in prisons in Latin America (Skarbek, 2010; 2020: 27–32; Birkbeck, 2011: 315–316; Cerbini, 2012, 2017; Darke, 2013, 2014; 2018: 139–197, 279–321; Antillano, 2015, 2017; Antillano et al., 2016; Darke and Karam, 2016: 461, 465; Darke and Garces, 2017: 4; Macaulay, 2017: 51–52, 2019, 253–255;; Weegels, 2017; 2019; Bracco Bruce, 2020: 45–50, 95–128; Darke; Manchado, 2018: 102, 2019: 21–22; Sozzo and Navarro, 2020; 2021; 2022; Sozzo and Avila, 2020, 2022; Sozzo, 2022a; Sozzo, 2022c).