Crisis en el sistema penitenciario ecuatoriano y su incidencia en los derechos humanos de los privados de libertad del Centro de Rehabilitación Social de Varones N. 1 de Guayaquil. Periodo 2021.

Abstract

Based on the importance and urgency of dealing with the issue of the prison crisis in Ecuador, a study has been undertaken whose initial support is to know the causes that have led the country's prison system to enter a total state of collapse, aggravating this situation with the arrival of Covid-19 that paralyzed the entire world and generated a major health emergency, completely destabilizing the prison system. In February 2021, episodes of extreme violence were experienced at the Men's Social Rehabilitation Center No. 1 in Guayaquil, where several prisoners were murdered, hundreds were injured, and multiple material damages occurred to the prison facilities, leaving those who were completely defenseless. they were confined. In the present study, an analysis was made of the prison crisis manifested specifically in the penitentiary center already mentioned above. Said The examination analysis took into account the national and international regulations on the matter, the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court and reference authors. In addition to applying data collection instruments such as surveys and interviews in order to determine if there is a normative incompatibility between the prison situation and the norms that govern Human Rights. Reviewed the results, it is concluded that the current conditions that occur in the prison object of this study are totally incongruous with those established in the regulations in favor of persons deprived of liberty and with the constitutional purposes of the sentence.