Since the enactment of Law 906 of 2004 Colombia adopted a trend accusatory penal system in which a criminal policy based on the negotiation and the granting of benefits and rights of the accused are established, provided they comply with certain conditions; This article aims to analyze the applicability and scope of Article 26 of Law 1121 of 2006 and 269 of Act 599 of 2000, as serious contradictions between them when granting the rights referred to above in relation to the reduction of sentence for the crime of extortion, when there is full compensation from the perpetrator of criminal conduct; the existence of specific cases highlight the existing legal problems to which the defendant when sentencing thus faces are severely violating the guiding principles, equality, law, reestablishment of law, judicial economy and proportionality. For which will be divided into three areas this research first a reference framework to the relevant regulations on the subject of research, with the pronouncements of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, which is not yet determined if that legal events of the reduced sentence for the crime of extortion, is a right or a benefit. Second is golden brown on the doctrinal principles and purposes of the issue in question and finally taken as sample for conducting the analysis, the town of Mocoa Putumayo well understood, the judiciary, trial lawyers, and prosecutor and court shows of the prison population.