El Método Apac Como Alternativa de Resocialización de la Persona Condenada es Eficaz? Estudio de Caso: Complejo Penitenciario y Carcelario el Pedregal

Abstract

The criminal system operates in three stages: creation of the law, prosecution, and enforcement of the criminal sentence. In the last stage, it may occur that the convicted person has been incarcerated in a penitentiary, as they have been processed and the judiciary has decided that they are responsible for the criminal conduct attributed to them by the prosecuting entity. The deprivation of liberty aims to resocialize this convicted person, without dehumanizing them and empowering them as a political subject. However, in Colombia, prisons have become a public order issue.

In penitentiaries and prisons, there is a prolonged and permanent lack of services. This problem has reached such a point that judges, through writs of tutela filed by prisoners, have understood it as a systematic violation of human rights and have ordered the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) to no longer admit individuals to the National Bellavista Prison in Medellín and the Pedregal Penitentiary and Prison Complex (COPED) until new prisons are created or existing facilities are adapted, thus seeking to mitigate the negative effects on the personality of inmates, evidenced by the lack of access to basic health services for convicts and accused individuals, with the implications this has for the Surveillance and Custody personnel.