This paper emphasizes the personal, family and social consequences of a penal verdict, absolving or condemnatory. Sentences of two cases are analyzed, in which the writer participated as an anthropological expert and party to one of the two sides. The judicial process was followed as a whole, the plaintiffs were interviewed, the sentences were analyzed and aspects often neglected of the system were taken into account referring to the changes that come to the plaintiff and which must be assumed by a person who has gone through a penal process resulting in condemnatory sentences, beyond the already known effects of imprisonment. Taking as reference works of critical criminology and anthropology aimed at advancing this discipline in the legal field, our objective will be to demonstrate that these convicts will be “photographed” in their sentences and after having paid their debt to society, they will be exposed not only as people who are not worthy to live in freedom but, in addition, the constant presence of this photograph will ensure that their social relations and their return to the places where they lived and tried to develop their lives no longer will be the same.