Hacinamiento y política penitenciaria en la jurisprudencia constitucional colombiana

This article deals with the topic of prison overcrowding in Colombia and how the constitutional court has responded to various violations of fundamental rights, establishing a penitentiary and prison policy from a jurisprudential perspective, bringing together pronouncements from international courts and setting guidelines that, henceforth, the government must undertake to solve the problem of overcrowding in Colombia.