Los derechos humanos de las personas privadas de libertad y su incidencia en el derecho Constitucional a la rehabilitación social en el Ecuador

Abstract

Throughout history, social rehabilitation centers in Ecuador, have been characterized for having penitentiary overpopulation, and it is taken to annual index of overcrowding around the 29.83%. This problem has big consequences, for example, people who is deprived of their liberty do not have adequated places to sleep, also do not have access to food, health and obviously education, they can not participate in cultural, social and sport activities, not even to workshops, capacitation and work programs. Those issues, and the deficient penitentiary infrastructure, and also a lack of well-prepared human personal, absence of programs and treatments to drug addiction, lack of control in the entrance of prohibited arms inside the penitentiary, corruption inside of it, are elements which allow some places to violate Human Rights of people who is deprived of their liberty and also make impossible the aim of social rehabilitation, making that this centers just contribute to improve their abilities to continue being criminals. Now, in this context, the present investigation is trying to give a response to the main question: Is respect of Human Rights a helpful tool to accomplish the constitutional right of social rehabilitation? And for getting and answer to this, was used a methodology with a quantity and quality focus and also deductive reasoning. This investigation project possesses a big scientific value, because the problem has not been analyzed yet for many investigators.