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Welcome to Liberté

Our cooperative is a 100% self-managed enterprise within Penal Unit No. 15 of Batán. We combine individual talent with collective strength to produce with quality and dignity.

Teamwork

Over 200 members united by cooperativism, building the future with their hands.

Real Production

Leatherwork, carpentry, metalwork, beekeeping, gardening and professional-quality crafts.

Social Commitment

Sustainable development, dignity and inclusion integrated into our cooperative model.

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07 de June, 2026 Cátedra Libre

«Labor "Modernization" as the Destruction of Social Gains»: a class by two labor lawyers at Liberté

Labor lawyers Cynthia Benzion and Leonardo Elgorriaga taught an open class on labor reform in Liberté's territory. More than eighty people — between Zoom and in-person at Batán — traced a century of labor law, from Article 14 bis to the Ley de Modernización Laboral, with a focus on what those who live off their work stand to lose, including people in prison.

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07 de June, 2026 Institutional

The Cátedra Libre is born: Universidad Liberté's classes, written down and open

We are launching the Cátedra Libre, the imprint with which Cooperativa Liberté publishes the full, written version of Universidad Liberté's gatherings —EnClave Libre, diploma courses, the Laboratorio de Saberes and workshops—. The first edition is already available.

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31 de May, 2026 Análisis

Punishment cells: the dictatorship systematized them and democracy did not abolish them

At Batán Penitentiary Unit Nº15 the punishment cells —the extreme isolation device of the Buenos Aires prison system— were abolished. Three public bodies —CELS, the National Penitentiary Ombudsman and the Provincial Memory Commission—, the Argentine government itself before the UN Committee against Torture, an institutional investigation by the Ombudsman directed by Alcira Daroqui and Carlos Motto, and survivor testimonies from the Camps Circuit describe those cells as a common matrix with the dungeons of State terrorism.

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Working for the recovery of rights and dignity in prisons

Mission of Cooperativa Liberté

Partnerships and recognition

Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata INTA Federación Argentina de Cooperativas de Crédito Víctimas por la Paz Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata INTA Federación Argentina de Cooperativas de Crédito Víctimas por la Paz
Lo que dijeron de nosotros

El artículo describe la experiencia de justicia restaurativa en el restaurante "Punto de Paz" dentro del penal de Batán, promovida por la abogada Diana Márquez, quien preside la asociación civil "Víctimas x la Paz". Este proyecto busca la reparación y reinserción social de los pr...

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