silo Revista republicana Print version ISSN 1909-44500n-line version ISSN 2256-5027 Abstract Luis Alfonso. The human rights of prisoners in Rev. repub. [online]. 2018, n.24, pp.127-144, ISSN 1909- 4450. httos://dol.org/10.21017/rev.repub.2018.v24.243, The balance sheet concerning the guarantees of the human rights, in the penitentiaries and prison centers of Colombia, is a non-encouraging situation; persons deprived of the freedom in the penitentiary centers of the country suffer inhuman conditions. In spite of the constitutional and legal advances remains the historical debt of Colombian State, respect the guarantees of human rights of a group of persons considered by the international community in conditions of vulnerability and under the custody of the State. Colombia has proved to be unable to materially abide with dispositions of by the Constitution, poliened which have been endorsed but the jurisprudence of this high tribunal, regarding the guarantees, of the human rights of the population deprived of freedom. The article contains a research about several forms of torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatments permanently persons deprived of freedom and of the reasons significant increase of cases of suicide and violent deaths of prisoners in prison and penitentiary centers of the country. Keywords : Human rights; Persons deprived of the freedom; Unconstitutional State of Things; Torture; rights of the prisoners. abstract in Spanish + text in Spanish + Spanish ( pdf) Services on Demand Journal ih; SAELO Analytics Article Spanish (pd) Attic in xml format B) Attic references [D) How to cite this article ih; SGELO Analytics ‘Automatic translation ig Send Indicators article by e-mail Related links Share Permalink Corporacién Universitaria Republicana, Centro de Investigaciones Carrera 7° No 19-39, piso 4°. Teléfono (57) 2862384 Ext 114 revistarepublicana@urepublicana.edu.co