This project will follow the stories of four Salvadoran women convicted of extortion, financial crimes, theft, and abortion. (El Salvador is one of the five countries in the world where abortion is completely prohibited; an obstetric emergency can be classified as a homicide.)
Women's prisons in El Salvador are full of poverty and exclusion. Inside, women barely have access to basic human rights. This means psycho-social attention, studies, and activities to guarantee their re-insertion are not a reality for them.
Outside prison, women struggle to get rid of the stigma of being a former convict: They can hardly access a decent job, especially because most of them have low educational levels. This often leads them back to some of the crimes that took them to prison in the first place. The penitentiary system traps women in a circle of human rights violations.
