Publicación:

Principio de necesidad de la pena y hacinamiento carcelario en Colombia. Estado de cosas inconstitucional no tenido en cuenta por los jueces de conocimiento y, ejecución de penas y medidas.

Resumen

One of the most used forms of punishment within the Colombian criminal procedure is prison in a prison or intramural center. However, for more than a decade, the country has been going through an unconstitutional state of affairs due to the overcrowding of the different prisons in the country. Within this document, the author studied the opposition and confrontation between the principle of necessity of the penalty and said unconstitutional state of affairs, accessing statistics on the imposition of these measures, possibility of other sanction mechanisms, percentage of overcrowding of several prisons in the country and studying the different theories related to the aforementioned principle until achieving the issuance of an authentic and well-founded legal concept.