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Liberté turns 12: dignified work is possible inside
On July 3, 2014, a stamp at the entrance desk of Unit 15 in Batán marked the start of Liberté. The story of that first day, twelve years later.
Thinking security from inside prison — fifth year of the Liberté Diploma
Diana Márquez and Ricardo Augman, who share the general coordination, talk about the fifth year of a one-of-a-kind program: coordinated from inside a penitentiary unit by people in prison, crime victims, and formerly incarcerated people. An inside view of the project.
Punishment cells: the dictatorship systematized them and democracy did not abolish them
At Batán Penitentiary Unit Nº15 the punishment cells —the extreme isolation device of the Buenos Aires prison system— were abolished. Three public bodies —CELS, the National Penitentiary Ombudsman and the Provincial Memory Commission—, the Argentine government itself before the UN Committee against Torture, an institutional investigation by the Ombudsman directed by Alcira Daroqui and Carlos Motto, and survivor testimonies from the Camps Circuit describe those cells as a common matrix with the dungeons of State terrorism.
Marathon for Peace: the world's first inside a prison
Two editions (March 2019 and November 2022) in which incarcerated people, victims, formerly incarcerated people, family members, professional marathon runners, and judicial officials ran together. Overseen by the Marathon Runners Federation. A third edition is in preparation.