La crisis del sistema penitenciario por la prisión preventiva en la ciudad de Cuenca desde el año 2019 hasta el año 2023

Abstract

In 2019, takes relevance the already existing crisis of the prison system specifically in the Social Rehabilitation Center – Sierra Centro Sur Zonal 6, also known as Turi Prison so the purpose of this research is to analyze whether the legal figure of preventive detention as a precautionary measure aggravates or not the crisis in the penitentiary center in the city of Cuenca between the years 2019 – 2023 with the aim of finding if there are weaknesses to make recommendations to provide better management to the system in favor of harmonious coexistence between PPL’s to know their perception of the situation and interviews were also conducted with expert legal professionals; In addition, the research was complemented with a documentary review related to the topic. From the results, it can be inferred that the precautionary measure of deprivation of liberty is erroneously applied and is aggravated by factors such as corruption and the deinstitutionalization of social rehabilitation, confirming that pretrial detention influences the worsening of the prison crisis, which is why a new institutional framework for social rehabilitation is necessary.