Forgotten Childhoods in Mexico's Prisons: Children Living with Their Mothers in Prison. Sinaloa Case
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Women prisoners, forgotten childhoods, human rights, mixed prisonsAbstract
Mexico has 225,843 people deprived of their liberty in prison in federal and common jurisdictions; 213,061 men, representing 94.34% of the population and 12,782 women, representing 5.66% of the total population (Secretaria de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana [SSPC], 2022), and this is precisely the population of women deprived of liberty and the 329 infants who cohabit with their mothers in prison, the object of study of this research.
In Mexico, there are 22 women's penitentiary centers and only four states have two centers of this category; However, 14 States, including Sinaloa, have mixed penitentiary centers (CNDH, 2022).
It is in these mixed penitentiary centers where the human rights of women deprived of liberty and those of the minors who cohabit with them are systematically violated, since in state prisons there is no separation of those prosecuted and sentenced, that is that is to say, mothers with their daughters and sons share the same cell with other women with different legal status and who have committed serious crimes, all of which promotes criminogenic contagion for everyone, especially minors. Furthermore, children do not receive food, initial education, pediatric care, or free medications, all of this contravenes international instruments on human rights and the Mexican constitution itself, as well as various national laws.
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