Carlitos is in charge of the library located in the Liberté space, he tells us that there are about 3,500 reading texts, and he specifies more than 1,500 authors, he indicates that his job is to deliver books to prisoners for reading and there is the option of using it both in the library room as well as the possibility of taking it to read it in his cell in the pavilion with the commitment to return it within a maximum period of thirty days.
I also mention that there is a mobile library that once a week goes through the different pavilions that exist in the two zones, maximum security and medium security, there the books that the prisoner wants to read are left and in the next tour of the library that is given to after seven days, if you have already read it, you can exchange it for another.
In addition to attending the library, Carlitos tells us that different meetings are held in this multipurpose room, such as workshops, conferences, courses, and he highlights that some are in person, others via the Zoom platform and on other occasions combined, at the time of his performance attended by many prisoners from different pavilions, trainers or simply external visitors linked in one way or another to the prison environment, who want to know our space for its condition of constant improvement.
This is also the ideal place to project a film that leaves positive messages, says Carlitos, where many share a pleasant moment, it is inevitable later to set up a healthy debate about what has been seen.
There are several spaces within Liberté where one can interact with colleagues, reflect and add that it is a place of well-taken freedom beyond the fact that one is deprived of it.
We can speak or think freely, we work so that there is peace, unity, so that there is a community with the invitation on a daily basis for everyone to seek and find this.
Every morning when I get up I do it with great optimism because I know that I am going to do a job that is going to help many people who come here, with the reading of a book sharing a teaching, a talk, a mate in between, it is very important to me when someone reads the book and then comments on how the text turned out.
I am grateful to Liberté for the opportunity it gave me, to be here in what I like, among the books, in this space of harmony, peace, fellowship, I feel very gratified.
Source: Liberte