Centros de Rehabilitación Social de Ecuador como mecanismo de segregación

Abstract

Currently, the social rehabilitation centers (CRS) in Ecuador have become one of the most serious problems in the country, especially due to the continuous prison massacres and the collapse of the organizational infrastructure of the social rehabilitation system regulated by the National Comprehensive Care Service. to Adult Persons Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI), for this reason it is imperative to seek solutions to these dramatic realities presented in the Social Rehabilitation Centers of the country. Due to this background, the objective of carrying out an exploratory analysis was proposed to identify the main problems of the SRCs in Ecuador, which allows for an overview of the panorama and, based on this, to present brief recommendations to mitigate the organizational problem. In the study, a basic predictive research methodology will be used, in terms of the socio-critical research paradigm and, in turn, the use of theoretical methods (Analysis - synthesis, exegetical and sociological) and empirical (documentary analysis) especially of scientific articles. of the last 5 years. It was identified that the current prison system uses the prison as a mechanism of segregation for the most disadvantaged economic classes. In fact, due to the serious economic crisis that Ecuador is experiencing and the severity of the prison system, we have that the social classes with the greatest economic limitations become the main "clients" of the prisons. Thus, vulnerable social groups excluded from society, generally located in the most remote neighbourhoods, or those whose economic income does not allow them to satisfy their basic needs, become the main targets and recipients of criminal law and, once absorbed by the prison system, these conditions are aggravated and worsened in prisons