She is about the Catalan reference, who, after the doubtful death of her son, in a prison in Spain, began a fight for the rights of prisoners.
Amo is the founder of a civil organization that today brings together 14 people, relatives of prisoners, activists, but also has the support of professionals and other people who, although they do not have imprisoned relatives, do feel consubstantiated with the issue.
She toured the facilities of our cooperative, talked with the prisoners who were training and working, shared a lunch and left with a message full of hope.
On the morning of this Monday, March 20, she was received by the leaders of our institution, and collaborators.
His presence in Argentina is due, among other things, to his participation in the III World Forum on Human Rights 2023, to be held in our country, in CABA, as a speaker, precisely where Liberté will also be present, to speak about the experience of forming this organization.
Abandonment, negligence and laziness, are three qualifying adjectives that she used to classify those who were custodians of her son in prison in Spain, and she added that this happened because people do not do their work as they have to do, in relation to the service penitentiary.
She told Prensa Liberté that from there she felt the need to talk about her pain, her suffering, and to convey everything she felt at that moment to the people who have had to suffer what she also suffered. .
From there the idea of forming a group of families was born, remembering having started alone and that today there are fourteen, although there are not many, she mentions, they are very hard-working and diligent, and she confesses that she is sure that in a short time there will be many more people, that is why in this report he encourages, from Mar del Plata, all the families of all the countries of the world, to get involved with the families of the prisoners of their countries, to defend all the rights that are natural, but I point out that it seems that there are to win them over again.
human rights overwhelmed
She also said that it seems that they have been lost, but that rights have to be fought for, and she added, "we are not born with rights stuck up our ass, we always have to earn them."
“Families are born there, and I am proud of the group that we are maintaining, of what we are enduring, of what we are fighting for, because unfortunately it is very hard work, everything costs an inhuman effort, and a lot of pain”
She then referred to the Batán prison
“I have seen things here today that make me cry, things that I had never seen before, conditions in which the prisoners are found, inhumane, at all levels, sick prisoners, prisoners with drug problems, disgusting food, lack of space, dehumanization, lack of affection, overcrowding, a lot of things that are rights that we do not have to let them take away from us, they are ours”
"Society in Spain, especially, finds it very difficult, due to risk, out of shame, it is very difficult for it to assume that your son is a criminal, and is in prison, in jail, because normally the neighbors speak badly, because your son is a thief, and people are ashamed"
"Honestly, I am proud of my son, because mothers love our children as they are, as they are, but in general, families in Catalonia, in Spain, are very afraid, and have a hard time getting involved in issues of the prisons, at the prison doors waiting to see other prisoners, I ask, how is your son here?, ah, well, my son is not bad, he is fine, and I tell them, but how can they be well in a jail , where they hit them, insult them, or spit on them, how can it be okay in that situation?
About Liberté
"The truth is that when you cross the door that separates the prison itself and Liberté, you feel that you are leaving prison, that is the feeling that I had when I entered Liberté, I have not felt that I was entering a prison"
"I, who am tired of visiting prisons in Spain, have the same feeling of overwhelm, agony, anguish, when I enter a prison in my country, which is the one I have had here in this prison, I will even say that here more , because it is unknown territory for me, and when I have passed the Liberté gate, I have seen that large orchard, the workshops, the boys, I have wanted to kiss them all, because I think they are doing a good job "
“We need Liberté to grow bigger, we need more and more prisoners to become part of it because they will benefit, I am sure of that, and it will be in many aspects”
"I wish, the prisons, really, were like Liberté, the food, the treatment, the air that is breathed, the smell of prison..., Liberté does not smell of prison, it smells of what is put on the plants so that they grow up, the compost, it smells like people working, kids wanting to rebuild their lives, that's what Liberté smells like, it doesn't smell like jail.
Fuente: Prensa Libertè