Centro carcelario para sindicados Re-educación presidiaria a través de una configuración espacial arquitectónica

Abstract

Overcrowding in Colombian prisons is one of the main problems affecting the current prison system. The regional central prison composed of 37 municipalities, including Bogotá, covers the largest capacity of prison quotas, exactly 30,304 and overpopulation reaches 11,368 inmates (Inpec, 2019). This is how the overcrowding index becomes evident, since 36% of those who are in the country's prisons are detained preventively, that is, those who are known as accused and have not been convicted (Departamento Nacional de Planeación Subdirección Territorial y de Inversiones Públicas Grupo de Coordinación de SGR, 2015). This project aims to design a prison center for syndicates, where architecture as a discipline develops penitentiary facilities, looking for respect for the rights of inmates. It also seeks to establish priorities such as the welfare of the syndicate, designing decent spaces for the new prison center to break with the paradigm of cold and agglomerated prisons. In addition, the possibility of reducing the number of convicts in different prisons of the central penitentiary regional of Colombia is presented, supporting the existing infrastructure, to improve the system in a strategic way and including re-educational and re-socializing functions that guarantee the interrelation of spaces in the vulnerable people’s conviction process, who are addressed in the project.