Private Story
Ghetto Dreamers_ec
With the approval of the new Penal Code in Ecuador, a new penitentiary system with maximum-security policies was established. The hardening of penalties for drug trafficking resulted in an increase from 11 279 prisoners in 2009 to 41 000 in 2019 the 30% due to the possession or sale of drugs. In the Provisional Detention Center in Quito are 1 785 prisoners and only has capacity for 600. Commonly, jails are located in remote areas, far from the center of the city. For inmate families, distance represents a big problem in terms of time and money. This system, along with unfavorable social and economic conditions, and extreme isolation policies such as the prohibition of written letters or photographs, call restrictions, extreme body search for visitors, create a hostile and emotionally fragile environment, where both, prisoners and family members, endure the sentence without a rehabilitation and social reintegration process.
This is a serie that portrait the prison life in the jail and the prisoners Ìs families out the jail to show that this problem is for the families and communities increasing the impact of this social issue.