Establecimiento Penitenciario de Mediana Seguridad de Cartagena: una Nueva Oportunidad para la Salud

For several years now, the serious health situation in prisons has been described as a social problem, because it directly contradicts the aims of the State, the welfare and the general interest, causing strong criticism and reproaches about the role of the administration in ensuring the dignified life of its inhabitants, and that does not exclude those in prisons. Consequently, this, with its various motivations, made the defence of human rights a central political issue in Colombia. In order to solve these problems, the State demonstrated by creating legislation for the protection and defence of human rights. Since its inception, the Magna Carta proclaims that Colombia is a Social State of Rights and provides mechanisms to protect them, although they are deprived of their liberty, they do not lose their status as individuals and deserve the Saberes, II 2020, ISSN: 1794 -4384 (En línea), 1794 -4384 (Impreso) Página | 94 same rights as others, for which reason rights such as life, health and access to health must be guaranteed by the State, that they are delivered effectively and do not violate the dignified life that everyone should have, so we want to show how the state’s shortcomings violate the rights of the most fragile citizens, the prisoners.