The rehabilitation principle considers inmates and State as collaborators in a process designed to improve inmates’ mental health. 3Īnother underlying issue, in spite of efforts made by the existing legislation, is the high rates of recidivism: “achieving social reintegration of convicted offenders and ensuring that they do not recidivate” (Article 18 of the Constitution). This overcrowding in correctional facilities has been repeatedly denounced by many representatives of the National Human Rights Commission, 2 who have expressed the need for a comprehensive solution and different strategies, policies, programs, and interventions by the branches of government to attend to this issue. 1 Overcrowding is causing, in turn, many other issues: organized gangs, failure to control prisons, ungovernability, lack of basic amenities, misclassification of inmates, poor integration of employees’ responsibilities, and, naturally, the lack of real opportunities for access to means guaranteeing effective social reintegration. Only for 3.6% of criminal punishments did alternative punishments were considered, such as fines and compensations. In fact, the penal system has abused convictions (96.4%) by setting jail time as sentence enforcement with imprisonment. These facilities are designed to house 195,278 inmates, so this indicates that capacity is up to 124.3%, with overcrowding in 220 of the 420 total correctional facilities. Statistical data collected by the Secretariat of the Interior (January, 2013) show that there are 420 correctional facilities with a total of 242,754 inmates. To be able to understand problems faced in Mexico’s prisons, some data must be taken into account.
Keywords: Mexican inmates, MMPI-2, psychological profiling, delinquency Introduction This psychological profile helps to complete data already obtained from social and demographic profiles of Mexican inmates as identified by different surveys published by the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, CIDE). Final results show specific personality characteristics of inmates, with a prominent elevation on Psychopathic Deviate (Pd), Paranoia (Pa), Social Introversion (Si) and Depression (D).
Their results were compared with those of 1.198 non-inmate participants to discern differences. A total of 2,051 Mexican inmates participated, 853 of whom are inmates of different jails in the Federal District and the State of Mexico. This study aims to obtain a psychological profile of Mexican inmates based on the administration of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and to obtain the main characteristics defining their personality.
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