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The cooperative of inmates developed by the Humanitas360 Institute in the Men’s Penitentiary 2 in Tremembé, São Paulo, has received a mechanized irrigation system. The installation of the equipment finalizes…

  Students from the University of Denver (USA) came to Brazil to get a closer look at the work developed by the Humanitas360 Institute. The MBA program brought Charlee Ottersberg,…

The Humanitas360 Institute signed, on December 18th, a technical term of cooperation with the National Justice Council (CNJ in the acronym in Portuguese) with the intent to encourage civic-social entrepreneurship…

The Humanitas360 Institute presented the project of cooperatives of inmates during the panel discussion entitled “Behind and Beyond Bars: Innovative Solutions for Reducing Recidivism”, at the UN headquarters in New…

  Corruption scandals and waves of violence lead many people to believe that prison is the best remedy to the common problems impacting several Latin American countries. However, the workshops…

  After organizing the handicraft workshops at the Tremembé Penitentiary for Women 2, the Humanitas360 Institute has kicked started the project to create a second cooperative of inmates, this time…

  Ex-inmate Emerson Ferreira’s success story of being able to get his civil rights restored was featured in the news program SPTV, an affiliate of Globo TV in Mogi das…

  The first collection of products is ready and it is time for the co-operative of handicrafts to grow! To enable the business model and raise funds for the 30…

  The fourth workshop in the series “Paradigm Shift: Sentence, Prison and Reintegration of Inmates,” facilitated by the Humanitas360 Institute, consolidated the creation of a coalition to combat the increase…

  Detainee cooperatives begin to emerge as one of the most promising measures to counter growing violence on the streets of Latin America. They aim to use entrepreneurship as an…