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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
Inside Wiesbaden Prison: De-Radicalization Through Art
The prison system has been questioned uncountable amount of times. We need prisons, of course — what is the alternative? However, the way they work is obsolete and it screams for a change.
Human rights dictate that lawbreakers should be treated with dignity and be provided with the opportunity to reintegrate to society and to have the same rights as everybody else. The problem with this is that when a person enters jail we stop seeing them as humans with rights. More than that, we completely overshadow them.
70% of released prisoners backslide into crime. This clearly means the system is failing. Too much investment goes into the enforcement of police, but what does not go as a priority is the rehabilitation of these imprisoned people. Modern prisons are incubators of criminal activity — places where criminal groups organize, train their members, recruit and plan future crimes. In other words, prisons are a crime school where one could be sent for stealing car parts and end up learning about kidnapping.
Every time someone enters prison means a failure to the society we live in. Recidivism is a double failure. We need tools to avoid these cases. When a person is there for so many years, he has time to change his thoughts, to change himself, and art has proven to do a lot for it.
When people get out of jail, it is nearly impossible for them to find new jobs. Part of it is because during their time in prison they stopped their academic and occupational development — they come out into a world that kept evolving without them. Of course, I could not forgive the person who kidnapped someone I loved, but I would like that when this person comes out he is not forced to go back to the same old ways and provoke all of that suffering to someone else.
This video shows how a prison in Wiesbaden, Germany is using theater as a tool to rehabilitate young Daesh volunteers back into society.
Maybe art will not change the world on its totality, but it will undoubtedly force men to look for the best inside of them.
