Abstract
The central thesis of this article is that in prisons the inmate population suffers, in general, and the groups excessively represented in them, in particular, human rights regressivity. From an ethnic perspective, the study method is documentary and focuses exclusively on Afro-descendant people as subjects of special protection, problematizing on three basic points, namely: the representative ideology of Afro-descendant people as criminals; the regressivity of human rights in the Americas as a fact that drives crime levels; and this situation doubly aggravated due to overcrowding in prisons as the norm.
Highlights
The central thesis of this article is that in prisons the inmate population suffers, in general, and the groups excessively represented in them, in particular, human rights regressivity
this situation doubly aggravated due to overcrowding in prisons
El agravante está en que el encarcelamiento masivo es un fenómeno en la región, los indicadores permiten observar que personas afrodescendientes están sobrerrepresentadas en las cárceles y esto tiene un trasfondo histórico constatado por diferentes autores, lo cual se identifica con mayor claridad en los EE.UU., sin decir con ello que el fenómeno no aparezca en otros Estados, como se observó en los casos de Brasil y República Dominicana
Summary
The central thesis of this article is that in prisons the inmate population suffers, in general, and the groups excessively represented in them, in particular, human rights regressivity.
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