Incidencia en Políticas Públicas

Its objective is to transform our country's prisons into places of opportunity and not of punishment. To achieve this, a strategic axis consists of promoting actions to positively transform public policies regarding social reintegration, in order to contribute to improving the capabilities of the prison system of our country, mainly in terms of work and training for it.

Advocacy on Public Policies seeks to generate a structural impact in our prisons at the national level and, thereby, contribute to positive systemic change in the Mexican prison system.

Position La Cana as an organization specialized in prison work and training for it, as a basis for social reintegration.

Specific objectives

  • Generate a network of political actors, officials and/or allied public servants who are interested in bringing the importance of the penitentiary system to the public agenda.

  • Establish an alliance with other organizations in order to promote relevant issues in the matter.

  • Promote regulatory changes that contribute to improving the capabilities of our country's prison system, mainly in terms of work and training for it.

  • Generate actions that make visible and allow us to socialize the experience and background that we are carrying out at La Cana regarding the possibility of guaranteeing labor rights for people deprived of liberty.

Publications

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  • Trabajo, oportunidades y reinserción de mujeres internas como factores para la construcción de paz - La Cana/CIPMEX, 2020
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  • Trabajo penitenciario: su regulación. Estudio de derecho comparado. La Cana/White & Case/ Thomson Reuters Foundation/ Trust Law, 2020.
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  • Manual de buenas prácticas para la Industria Penitenciaria - La Cana/USAID, 2022
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Book

You accuse the woman without reason. Feminism from prison: voices to disarm structural gender violence