Abstract

SANTILLAN MOLINA, Alberto Leonel; VINUEZA OCHOA, Nelly Valeria; BENAVIDES SALAZAR, Cristian Fernando  and  SANTILLAN OJEDA, Salvatore Joel. Drugs, trafficking and organized crime as a trigger for violent acts in Ecuador's prisons. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2022, vol.14, n.3, pp. 478-486.  Epub June 30, 2022. ISSN 2218-3620.

The power struggle between organized crime groups that are inside the centers of deprivation of liberty in the province of Guayas has caused more than one hundred seventy-nine violent deaths so far in the year 2021, to the point that personnel of these groups take the command and control of the different centers. For this reason, the objective of this research was to establish what are the main causes of the acts of violence in the centers of deprivation of liberty in Ecuador, and what would be the actions that prison authorities should implement to control this escalation of violence. Therefore, being the qualitative research, the historical-logical methods were used to establish the state of the penitentiary centers, the analytical-synthetic method that allowed explaining the different topics related to the research, and the legal analysis method that covered the legal dispositions applicable to the topic raised, both national and international, The conclusion reached is that the trigger for these acts of violence is drug trafficking and the control for the sale of alkaloids inside the different penitentiary wards, as well as the obligation of the State to propose public policies with investment in state-of-the-art technology for the control and protection of prisons.

Keywords : Organized crime; drug trafficking; murders; prisons; power struggles.

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