Prisons in pandemic time: a different way to survive coronavirus

Authors

  • José Julio Goicochea Elías Universidad Femenina Sagrado Corazón
  • Leydy Piñarreta Moreno Universidad Femenina Sagrado Corazón
  • Ana Omaní Flores Universidad Femenina Sagrado Corazón
  • Fiorella Valdivia Fajardo Universidad Femenina Sagrado Corazón

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/lumen.2020.v16n1.2285

Keywords:

Prison Overcrowding, Covid 19, Pandemic, Preventive Prison, Presidential Thanks

Abstract

The pandemic situation that the planet is going through has overwhelmed all the health facilities and programs. The penitentiary detention centers have not been oblivious to this reality. To the known problems of an infrastructure overwhelmed by the inmate population and to the scarce medical attention that a high percentage of infectious-contagious diseases brings, this new virus is added, the full effects of which are unknown. It is also worrying that a high number of the prison population is still facing sentencing processes: due to excessive abuse of the preventive detention mechanism and the almost null application by the judicial operators of the principles of proportionality and reasonableness. Jail is the exception. The judges have made it the rule.

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Author Biography

José Julio Goicochea Elías, Universidad Femenina Sagrado Corazón

Doctor en Derecho, docente universitario en Derecho Penal en coautoría con las estudiantes de la Facultad de Derecho pertenecientes al Círculo de estudio de Derecho Penal de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón UNIFÉ

Published

2020-06-30

How to Cite

Goicochea Elías, J. J., Piñarreta Moreno, L., Omaní Flores, A., & Valdivia Fajardo, F. (2020). Prisons in pandemic time: a different way to survive coronavirus. Lumen, 16(1), 55–72. https://doi.org/10.33539/lumen.2020.v16n1.2285

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