In social reinsertion

The stigma of having graduated from a penitentiary is, commonly, a factor against getting a job; however, various companies have social reintegration programs.

 

An example of this is Prision Art, a brand of hand-painted leather, whose main objective is to help people who are released from prison, Jorge Cueto, its founder, shares in an interview.

 

It is a project in which, through three steps, we seek to reinsert them into society, he says.

 

The first is to train them while they are in jail; the second is a support and rehabilitation program. Finally, when they are free, we give them a job offer so they don’t reoffend.

 

This initiative, he talks, came about eight years ago as a result of his own experience inside a prison.

 

I was also confined for more than a year, I entered the Puente Grande, Jalisco preventive; there you can see how corruption, violence and torture is the “daily bread,” he says.

 

The worst thing is that, when they graduate, they come out stigmatized; nobody wants to work with you, nobody wants to give you a job … it is a very big problem.

 

Source: Reforma, Vania Arzola