Liberté Glossary

💡 Health Facilitator

Incarcerated person trained to accompany and guide their peers in accessing healthcare within the penitentiary...

💡 Punitivisim

Discourse and practice that prioritize punishment as the primary —and often sole— response to crime, assuming...

💡 Person in incarceration

Person under State custody whose freedom of movement has been temporarily restricted. At Liberté, we choose th...

💡 Productive Unit

Working group organized within the cooperative that develops a specific productive activity alongside other in...

💡 Ward

Physical and social section within a penitentiary unit where a group of incarcerated people live together, wit...

💡 Restorative act

Concrete action aimed at repairing the harm caused, rebuilding relationships, and restoring the dignity of all...

💡 Restorative encounter

Facilitated, voluntary meeting between the person who caused harm and the victim (or surrogate victim / commun...

💡 Recidivism

Return of a person to the penal system following a prior sentence. It is one of the main indicators used to ev...

💡 Restorative Justice

Model of response to crime centered on repairing the harm caused to victims, restoring community bonds, and ho...

💡 Cooperativism

Form of economic organization based on the voluntary association of people to meet common needs through a coll...

💡 INAES

Argentine public agency responsible for promoting, registering, overseeing, and developing cooperativism and m...

💡 neighbor more

Quote by Andrés Castagno, member of Víctimas por la Paz

💡 FAV

Program coordinated by Cooperativa Liberté that finances, with its own resources, reparatory actions toward cr...