Prison infrastructure, the right to health and a suitable environment for the inmates of the Women’s Annex in Chorrillos Prison (Peru)

Abstract

ABSTRACT Objectives Decide how prison infrastructure guarantees health‘s right a suitable environment of Establecimiento Penitenciario Anexo de Mujeres de Chorrillos (EPAMCh) prisoners. Material and method For the materials was used an interview guide addressed to 10 specialist and interview guide addressed to 30 prisoners. About the method, it was selected the qualitative approach, the applied type with the phenomenological design. Results The interview experts said that Establecimiento Penitenciario Anexo de Mujeres de Chorrillos current infrastructure and don´t give minima sanitary services. In the polls, the prisoners unanimously answered that conditions were precarious, but mostly said that they were willing to incorporate to a health education program and bet for a preventive medicine without forget the curative. Discussion Is Important foment the preventive medicine in order to get a strong health education in jails. To reverse this reality would mean change a guarantee in their health rights and a suitable environment.

Keywords

• right to health
• social adjustment
• preventive medicine
• prisons