Importance of participation in the design of public policies for social rehabilitation in Ecuador

Abstract

The Ecuadorian prison crisis evidenced the ineffectiveness of prison policies that allowed the progressive transfer of control ofprisons to criminal groups, resulting in the intensification of human rights violations and leading to massacres and other typesof violence that, overcoming the walls of the prison, spilled over into society. Both Ecuadorian and international regulations, aswell as theoretical-conceptual frameworks, propose the inclusion of prisoners at the representation level of citizen control as amechanism for exercising rights and improving public interventions. e objective of this article is to reflect on the importance ofcreating effective participatory processes in the design of public policies related to the social rehabilitation system that includes thevoice of prisoners; there are results in Latin American countries such as Colombia and Uruguay, the regulation of participationbeing a relevant element to avoid corruption of the system.