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Liberté Glossary

Key terms on restorative justice, cooperativism, and penitentiary practices that we use in our work.

Everyone Legal Penitentiary Cooperative Restorative Institutional General
B H U C P W R I N S F

B

💡 biodanza

Sistema de integración humana basado en música, movimiento y vínculo grupal que promueve el desarrollo afectiv...

General

💡 buzones

Sector de aislamiento dentro de una unidad penal donde las personas en situación de cárcel son confinadas en c...

Penitentiary

H

💡 hacinamiento

Condición en que una unidad penal aloja más personas de las que su capacidad permite, vulnerando derechos fund...

Penitentiary

💡 Health Facilitator

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

Penitentiary

U

💡 unidad penitenciaria

Establecimiento de detención administrado por el Estado donde se alojan personas en situación de cárcel cumpli...

Penitentiary

C

💡 co-inspiradores

Personas externas a la cooperativa que, comprometidas con su visión, acompañan, escuchan y potencian el proyec...

Institutional

💡 Cooperativism

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

Cooperative

P

💡 Punitivisim

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

Legal

💡 Person in incarceration

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

Penitentiary

💡 Productive Unit

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

Cooperative

W

💡 Ward

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

Penitentiary

💡 Worker Cooperative

Legal structure in which those who work are simultaneously members and owners. Decisions are made by assembly...

General

R

💡 Restorative act

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

Restorative

💡 Restorative encounter

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

Restorative

💡 Recidivism

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

Penitentiary

💡 Restorative Justice

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

Restorative

I

💡 INAES

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

Institutional

N

💡 neighbor more

Quote by Andrés Castagno, member of Víctimas por la Paz

General

S

💡 Solitary Confinement

Section of a penitentiary unit where incarcerated people are confined separately from the general population,...

Penitentiary

F

💡 FAV

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

Restorative
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