Hacia una adecuada política de rehabilitación en los centros de privación de libertad ecuatorianos.

Abstract

For decades, the Ecuadorian prison system has been complicit in authentic crimes against humanity to the point of relegating the supposed social rehabilitation that it contemplates among its purposes, to a simple dead letter, aggravating the already unsustainable prison crisis. Establishments of criminal specialization where the integrity of the PDL matters little or nothing; disputes between gangs that end in genuine massacres; and, high rates of recidivism; they are the most reliable proof of the urgent need for a program that aims to put an end to one of the many edges of this crisis and offers practical solutions that materialize inside and outside detention centers. In this paper, in addition to analyzing the reality of the Ecuadorian social rehabilitation system, we will study those who are a substantial part of this regime: the PDL; deepening the origin of their criminal behavior in order to develop a program focused on their recovery and consequent social reintegration. A personalized treatment that aims to redeem the person behind the offender and demonstrates that it is possible to deal with a social problem that we all know, but little or nothing has been done to solve it.