After the meeting, locro in between, the verification act of what the Liberté Cooperative is and means was achieved, through the attendance framework obtained.
At mid-morning of the national date in commemoration of independence, July 9, the guests began to arrive at the Batán prison where our Liberté space is located, being received by Pampa and Carlos, president and secretary of the entity.
The meeting was attended by, among others, María Jimena Monsalve, National Criminal Enforcement Judge, Roberto Conti, Judge of the Criminal Court No. 7 Lomas de Zamora, Ileana Olivas, Justice of the Peace of the Court of La Calera, in the pcia. of Córdoba., Judge Mariana Iriani, Juvenile Criminal Responsibility Court No. 1, and Criminal Court No. 4, Mar del Plata, Alberto Bavestrello, Manager of the Argentine Federation of Credit Cooperatives, (founding partner of Cooperativa Liberté), Victoria Alcoba, Chief of Staff, Sub-Secretariat for Penitentiary Affairs, belonging to the Nation's Ministry of Justice, Marisa Pombo, a psychology graduate, who works in the Nation's Ministry of Justice, (Prison Affairs), Any Acevedo , lawyer, facilitator of dialogue in the context of confinement, within the program, "Let's try talking", the businessman and permanent collaborator with our space, Andrés Castagno, Graduate in psychology, Dr. Ricardo Augman, who works in the Penitentiary Prosecutor's Office of the Nation and works in the “Marcos de Paz” program, Diana Márquez, lawyer, notary public, President of the Victims for Peace organization, Aime Silva, Secretary of the Court of Lomas de Zamora, Jo Sefina Ignacio, Commissioner of the National Committee for the Prevention against Torture, the lawyer Jimena Falco, who works in the Unit of Mobile Lawyers 1 of Execution of CABA, (DGN), the Accountant Graciela Binztein, authorities of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service who perform functions In this prison, on behalf of the Provincial Head of the Penitentiary Service, Dr. Xavier Areses, the Head of the Complex, Astete, was present. defenders of the city of Morón, the former prisoner and chef Patricio collaborated with a chef friend, Julián, from the city of Necochea, Alfredo Medvedef, Bautista de Necochea and Cecilia Garzón.
The room where lunch was served, consisting of a tasty locro, is a space under construction between Víctimas x la Paz and Liberté called "Peace Point", which will function as a classic restaurant, for visitors, employees and prisoners.
The day served to tour the different areas of Liberté, a leather goods workshop and other crafts, a plant laboratory, which are located in the median workshop area, where the "most beautiful mural in the world" is located, and already in the sector where the largest number of productive units is located, they were able to visit the organic garden, chicken coop, warehouse, carpentry, greenhouse, rotisserie, and other sections such as apiary, library, textile room, etc., where they verified not only the growth but also the effort of who daily work in the cooperative space today.
The visitors from their different expressions agreed on the growth of the cooperative sector and also as an institution of Liberté within a prison, for which the achievement obtained so far is more plausible, a situation that invited its replication in other prisons, in the way towards transformation.
The figure of the Judge, Mario Juliano, physically disappeared, was in almost all the dialogues of the moment and he is remembered from Liberté as the one who was the main promoter of this happy idea without neglecting the roots, within the framework of a genesis, where the prisoner's needs were those that sought a chance to rediscover himself with dignity.
Today Liberté is cooperative, but it is also the example in whom many wish to reflect in pursuit of personal growth from their situation of confinement, to live with dignity and prepare for the recovery of their freedom.
Source: Liberte