To identify and know the experiences of the families of women deprived of liberty that participated in the strategy “laboratory of affection at the detention center for women in the city of Pereira in 2019. Qualitative-phenomenological study in which the participants’ points of view will be considered in regard to the experiences, feelings, emotions and strategies of coping in light of stressful events such as the deprivation of liberty of a loved one, the experiences of each family were taken into account, that is to say, the essence of the experiences that each of them have lived when facing the loss of liberty of their relative, this through the recollection of information with a sample of families of women deprived of liberty, guaranteeing a saturation of information, said information will be complied through the snowball sampling according to the penitentiary population registered in June 2019-2 that participated in the laboratory of affection, lastly the recollection and analysis ...