💡 Person in incarceration
Also known as: people in incarceration, person in incarceration, people in incarceration, people in incarceration, people serving sentences, People in Incarceration, person serving a sentence, Incarcerated person, people in incarceration, person in incarceration
Person under State custody whose freedom of movement has been temporarily restricted. At Liberté, we choose this designation to emphasize the transitory nature of the situation and to avoid reducing the person to their criminal status.
The choice of "person in a situation of incarceration" —instead of "inmate," "convict," or even "PPL"— reflects a political and pedagogical conviction: language shapes how we think about one another.
The word situation signals that this is a temporary state, not an identity. The person remains a full rights-holder, a citizen, a worker, a mother or father, a son or daughter. Incarceration is something they are going through, not something that defines them.
This principle runs through all of the cooperative's institutional communications: in the workshops, in official documents, in the minutes of the Comité de Convivencia, and in the academic work we publish.
Examples / usage
The 200 incarcerated people who are part of Cooperativa Liberté today are organized into 13 productive units inside Unidad Penal Nº 15 in Batán.