President of H360 speaks at National Secretariat for Penal Policies event about work in the prison system

On April 16, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute participated in the National Seminar on Work in the Prison System, held by the National Secretariat for Penal Policies in Brasília. In her speech, Patrícia Villela Marino defended the active role of civil society in the prison system, in order to collaborate so that work in prison has visibility, recognition and career prospects, allowing people deprived of liberty to build, while fulfilling their penalty, alternative ways of living with dignity and away from crime. She also presented the history of H360 with the model of civic-social entrepreneurship adopted in social cooperatives set up by the institute in penitentiaries in São Paulo and Maranhão.

“Which of us doesn’t think about our career?”, asked the president of H360. “And why not think that these people, our people, also need to think about their careers? I warn that the criminal faction is making a career. The State, civil society, are not giving those deprived of their liberty the opportunity to have a career in life, their work.”

“We cannot stay at work without the social value of that work, without it being regenerative,” she explained. “Otherwise, we will remain in robotic work, which does not bring dignity and does not bring career prospects. A job that does not bring the dream of reintegrating into a society that only recognizes us, unfortunately, for our work.”