The politics of carceral visibility in Ecuador: human dignity, state power and the public performance of security
This study examined how Ecuadorian digital news media framed, valued, positioned, and followed the penitentiary situation at the Cárcel del Encuentro (CPL Santa Elena No. 1) during 2025 and 2026. Grounded in critical realism, it moved beyond the empirical visibility of news events to interrogate the deeper generative m...