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11 RFJ 98 (2022)
Thoughts on Prison System and Increases in Crime: The Ecuadorian Case

handle is hein.journals/revfj11 and id is 98 raw text is: DOI 10.26807/rfj.v11i11.393


Sosa, F.                     Thoughts on prison system and increases in crime

              Thoughts on prison system and increases
                         in crime:  The  Ecuadorian Case1

           Reflexiones   sobre el sistema  penitenciario  y el
       aumento de la delincuencia: El Caso Ecuatoriano

Frank Steven Sosa Gangotena
Independent legal researcher
City: Quito
Country: Ecuador

Original article (analysis)
RFJ, No. 11, 2022, pp. 98 - 123, ISSN 2588-0837

ABSTRACT: The transformation undergone by individuals
who  are part of a prison system is from freedom  to illegality;
it is a system that not only compromises  freedom  but ignores
rights and guarantees  thanks to the  prevailing corruption in
a society that rebuilds life behind bars. Second  chances  are
sought, and  reality is accepted through the pacifist route, or
one  finishes destroying one's life, thinking that everything is
already lost. There is a fear of repression or one toy with the
illusion of leaving early and doing things well. The relationship
that behaviour,  corruption, drugs,  and mafias  share  in the
success or decline of a prison system that seeks to reintegrate
people into society who do not feel prepared or perhaps do not
want  to reintegrate is observed. All this is linked to a precarious
and inefficient education system, lack of psychological support,
and prison work  that condemns  whoever  learns to be a lifelong
labourer. Thus, it aggravates one of the phenomenon's primary


1   This journal article was written by the independent researcher Frank Sosa
    Gangotena who received support from the Publications Center (Centro de
    Publicaciones). The author thanks Lissangee Mendoza Garcia, who worked
    as a research assistant and GIDE's senior researchers for supervision and
    preliminary advisory and revision.


Revista Facu/tad de Jurisprudencia RFJ No.11 Junio 2022     98

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