The Lost Penalties: Critical Tangle about Ecuador’s Prison System

The extreme violence experienced in the prisons of Ecuador claimed 79 lives in February 2021. The article proposes an approach to the facts from three axes: the function of the penalty, the international obligations of the Ecuadorian State in terms of Human Rights and criminal policy. The analysis t...

• Autore principale: da Fonte Carvalho, Marcella (author)
• Altri autori: Monteiro Santana, Viviane (author), Charry Dávalos, José Andrés (author)
• Natura: article
• Lingua: spa
• Pubblicazione: 2022
• Soggetti: function; penalties; human rights; obligations of the State; criminal policy; prison; función; pena; derechos humanos; obligaciones del Estado; política criminal; cárcel
• Accesso online: https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/foro/article/view/3106