Edith Gómez Valenzuela

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Mujeres Privadas De La Libertad Y Su Derecho Humano A La Educación

Article January 23, 2026

Prisoner women are subjects of human rights, therefore they are holders of them and the Mexican State is obligated to guarantee it however the right to education as a way to achieve social reintegration suffers from structural and historical discrimination by the penitentiary system which discriminates the intellectual development of prisoner women, since the policies of the penitentiary centers regarding the education of prisoner women, is to provide them with stereotyped activities, such as: Beauty, crafts and sewing. With this type of education they submit and enslave women to the patriarchal system which not allow them to advance in their intellectual development