Factores que inciden en la vulneración del derecho a la vida de las personas privadas de la libertad en Ecuador

Abstract

This paper studied the relationship between the violation of the right to life of people deprived of liberty and the prison crisis that is affecting Ecuador, which has led to the violation of several constitutional rights, such as the right to health, security, physical integrity and, consequently, the right to life. This research focused on knowing the factors that affect the violation of the right to life of persons deprived of liberty from a qualitative approach, employing dogmatic, inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic, and historical-logical methods, as well as the techniques of revision of bibliographic bases. As a result, it was justified that in Ecuador, there is a large number of people who die in prison, which is produced by prison overcrowding, corruption, intra-prison violence, and, as a legal effect, the violation of the right to life of these people. Additionally, it is proposed that the implementation of new policies and actions to ensure respect for the right to life in order to reduce the number of deaths and thus mitigate the undermining of this right. Keywords: persons deprived of liberty, right to life, penitentiary system, violation of rights, prisions