Régimen penitenciario especializado para personas con discapacidad en la Legislación Ecuatoriana

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the urgent need for a special penitentiary regime through a theoretical basis and comparative law to guarantee the persons deprived of liberty rights and who have a disability because they are in a double vulnerability situation. METHODOLOGY: The methodology used was qualitative since it was based on a dogmatic and theoretical perspective on the need to regulate a special penitentiary regime for people with disabilities. RESULTS: The analysis showed that the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador establishes the protection of the population with disabilities; in addition to applying the right of double vulnerability to those who require it, it is therefore mandatory to proceed to a reform of the regulations investigated. CONCLUSIONS: A reform to the National Service of Integrated Attention to Adult Persons Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI by its Spanish acronym) will provide due protection to Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) with disabilities following human rights provisions.