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FAJARDO SANCHEZ., Luis Alfonso. The human rights of prisoners in Colombia. Rev. repub. [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.127-144. ISSN 1909-4450.  https://doi.org/10.21017/rev.repub.2018.v24.a43.

The balance sheet concerning the guarantees of the human rights, in the penitentiaries and prison centers of Colombia, is a non-encouraging situation; persons deprived of the freedom in the penitentiary centers of the country suffer inhuman conditions. In spite of the constitutional and legal advances remains the historical debt of Colombian State, respect the guarantees of human rights of a group of persons considered by the international community in conditions of vulnerability and under the custody of the State. Colombia has proved to be unable to materially abide with dispositions of by the Constitution, poliened which have been endorsed but the jurisprudence of this high tribunal, regarding the guarantees, of the human rights of the population deprived of freedom. The article contains a research about several forms of torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatments permanently persons deprived of freedom and of the reasons significant increase of cases of suicide and violent deaths of prisoners in prison and penitentiary centers of the country.

Palabras clave : Human rights; Persons deprived of the freedom; Unconstitutional State of Things; Torture; rights of the prisoners.

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