Cuando la prisión preventiva se convierte en castigo: la advertencia de la Corte Interamericana a Ecuador: Reyes Mantilla y otros vs. Ecuador
La prisión preventiva tiene por objeto garantizar el desarrollo del proceso penal, no anticipar su resultado. Sin embargo, cuando la gravedad de una acusación basta para justificar el encarcelamiento de...
When Pre-Trial Detention Becomes Punishment: The Inter-American Court’s Warning to Ecuador in Reyes Mantilla et al. v. Ecuador
Pre-trial detention is intended to secure criminal proceedings, not to anticipate their outcome. Yet when the seriousness of an accusation becomes sufficient reason to imprison a suspect, detention risks becoming...
Nada sobre la detención sin las personas detenidas: la participación como herramienta de prevención
Las políticas de detención son habitualmente diseñadas, aplicadas y evaluadas por personas que nunca han experimentado la detención. Se consulta a las personas detenidas cuando las instituciones necesitan información: los...
Rien sur la détention sans les personnes détenues : la participation comme outil de prévention
Les politiques de détention sont couramment conçues, mises en œuvre et évaluées souvent par des personnes qui n’ont jamais connu la détention. Les personnes détenues sont consultées lorsque les institutions...
Nothing About Detention Without Detainees: Participation as a Tool of Prevention
Detention policies are routinely designed, implemented, and evaluated by people who have never experienced detention. People in detention are consulted when institutions need information: inspectors interview them, researchers collect their...
Open Prisons and India’s Reformative Constitutional Turn
Open prisons are minimum security facilities where sentenced prisoners live and work outside prison walls during the day and return at fixed hours. They are an alternative to conventional closed...
The Years of Lost Freedom: The Untold Cost of Rights and India’s Unkept Promise of Compensation
In India, populist narratives often reduce personal liberty to an abstract idea, and its true value is realised only when the State restricts or denies it. This becomes especially evident...
Prisoners’ Right to Procreate as a Ground for Parole in India: A Platform for Discrimination?
Indian courts have recognized that prisoners possess procreative and marital rights under Article 21 of the Constitution, allowing parole to exercise these rights. However, granting parole on this basis undermines...
