Cárcel para la ciudad: estudio sobre los equipamientos carcelarios en Colombia

Abstract

Prisons are equipments that influence and have an impact on society. Classifying penitentiaries, defining its population, and setting dynamics of interaction between prisons and society through approach towards resocialization could relieve and reduce prison overcrowding. This study explores how to tackle the structural, physical and perceivable affairs in the context of prisons, without taking into account its architecture. To do so, it explores the current interventions performed in different prisons and their impact. Furthermore, it aims to provide principles and procedures to make the most of penitentiaries’ infrastructure, which could benefit inmates and also guarantee the city inhabitants a “right to the city”. This research has the aim of being applied and evaluated from the proposed approaches and models of long term intervention.