ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Forensic and Legal Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1589791
Living in prison: perceptions, experiences, and impact in Colombian ex-prisoners
Provisionally accepted
Carlos José Quintero-Cárdenas1,2*
Alexandra Nathaly Soto-Ibarra3Alix Sofía Valderrama-Castellanos1Luis Felipe Mendivelso-Gómez1- 1Universidad Manuela Beltrán, Bogotá, Colombia
- 2National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
- 3Pontifical Javeriana University, Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
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Background: Prison as a mechanism of formal crime control leads inmates who integrate it to face what the process of prisionalization implies for social reintegration. Aim:To analyze the perception, experiences and impact of prisionalization in Colombian exprisoners. Design: Qualitative research with descriptive-interpretative scope and multiple case design, in which a semi-structured interview and projective techniques were used to collect information with six ex-prisoners selected at convenience. Results: Experiences, perceptions and positive and negative impacts, and relationships between them were found; as well as information associated with the knowledge of exprisoners about the deprivation of liberty and the process of prisionalization Conclusions: Experiences, perceptions and negative impact prevail in the ex-prisoners, which could be considered in the pretensions about the social reintegration of the inmate population.
Keywords: Prisionalization, Perception, experiences, impact, ex-prisoners
Received: 08 Mar 2025; Accepted: 13 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Quintero-Cárdenas, Soto-Ibarra, Valderrama-Castellanos and Mendivelso-Gómez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Carlos José Quintero-Cárdenas, Universidad Manuela Beltrán, Bogotá, Colombia
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