Funcionalidad de la pena en el sistema penitenciario y carcelario en Colombia.

Abstract

The purposes of the penalty in Colombia are incompletely materialized, since it is not in all cases that the inmates are able to develop a life project, the State has to pursue the conducts that injure or endanger legally protected assets, but it also has to guarantee the protection of the rights of the prison population. Citizens who are subject to the action of the penitentiary system, their security and integrity must be ensured within the penitentiary establishments, and their re-socialization establishing opportunities that allow a reactivation as productive citizens of the community at the time of recovering their freedom, so that they rejoin society, in pursuit of the general interest. This document offers an analysis of the realization of the purposes and functions of the penalty in Colombia