:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/BQVJS5M5KRHOFIHWJGAOIF34SI.jpg "“You accuse women without reason, prison feminism”: a look behind bars beyond prejudice")
In a halfway house in Mexico the interview book was presented”You accuse woman without reason, prison feminism”a text, published jointly with the Security Secretary (SS), through the Under-Secretary for Prison Controlwith which the collective At Cana seeks to make visible the stories of mwomen deprived of liberty (PPL) as part of their social reintegration.
The book is composed of 33 interviews to women confined in 12 jails different from Mexican territory. This initiative, with feminist accents and in favor of social reintegration, was presented to the Penitentiary center and of Reintegration (CPRS) of Nezahualcóyotl (State of Mexico), better known as Xochiaca Maple.
During the event, the Under-Secretary for Prison Control, Jacobo Olaf Rodriguez Garcia, expressed that this exercise by the SS promotes the reintegration of prisoners and recognized the work of At Cana as a creator of tools and processes that women prisoners can use upon their release from prison.
“One of the most important efforts we have with women is with them with La Cana, because they do it decisively, it’s a generic and authentic effort. It’s a book that combines and contains the stories of many women in prison across the country, for 10 years I have been working on behalf of women who are in prison, making their stories visible, believing in second chances,” she said Jacobo Olaf Rodriguez Garcia.
At Cana it was founded by Rachel Aguire, Mercedes-Becker, Daniel Ancient y Wendy Balcazar, four women who since 2013 have remained committed to women deprived of their liberty, provided free legal advice, for which they entered the reality of prisons. In 2016, they decided to consolidate this project in order to provide sources of employment within the prisons.
“The worst thing is the justice system, which should have a gender perspective, but it seems to be the opposite. Today, it is statistically proven that women are sentenced to a heavier sentence than men for the same crime and there are more women without sentence in prison,” said Raquel Aguirre in an interview with faces.
In the interviews ofYou accuse the woman for no reason.”the authors have taken it upon themselves to delve into what drives women to commit crimes, but they also explore how to get to the root of the problem.
They expose how these women have been influenced by their partners, which adds to the circles of violence they have led from an early age, a cycle that is repeated in the prison dynamic.
“This book aims to make visible that there is so much more to committing a crime, that ultimately we are working with human beings who deserve the same dignity we deserve, people who are outside,” Mercedes said. Becker during the presentation.
La Cana presents this book as the representation of the cry of all those women prisoners who want and need to be heard, thanks to a series of stories intervening through the interview that seeks to erase preconceived ideas and help to discover the context from which these women come.
Participate in this book Rachel Aguire y Wendy Balcazarfounders of At Cana, who helped trace these remnants of violence as a trigger for the inmates’ fates. They seek to make known the reality of 33 voices confined in 12 prisons of the Mexican Republic, and thus present that there is a destiny beyond the stigma of being ex-convicts.
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