Letter from Pope Francis to Argentine prisoners: "No conflict is solved by isolating, separating or removing people" – 06/02/2019

"You are deprived of your freedom, not your dignity and your hope"It was one of many messages that Pope Francis wrote in a letter addressed to a group of prisoners held in Unit No. 31 of the Ezeiza Federal Women's Detention Center.

The letter, to which Vatican Insider had access, was known on Wednesday but bears the date of Sunday, February 3. The document was a response from the pontiff to a series of letters that the prisoners sent to Francisco before the end of the year, where they told him their stories, their anxieties and their problems.

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The letters of the prisoners arrived in Rome in the hands of Roberto Carlés, Argentine lawyer secretary of the Latin American Association of Criminal Law and Criminology, who was at the Vatican in December to participate in a papal audience with a delegation of the Commission. International against the death penalty.

Before that, the pope had decided to answer them also by a letter. Francisco thanked them "from the heart" for his words to the prisoners and in one of the paragraphs that he emphasized: "Jesus invites us to step out of the simplistic logic of divide between good and evil enter into another dynamic, able to badume the fragility, our limits and our sins, and thus be able to move forward. And we can do it because the mercy of the Lord embraces us all"

"Many of you are mothers and in your letters they ask for your children. They know what it is to create life. Today, they have the challenge of creating the future and have the ability to do so, even when they have to struggle against so many determinisms. Do not be reified, it's not a number, it's people who generate hope because they want to give hope. You are deprived of your freedom, not your dignity and your hopeSo followed the Pope's text.

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"No conflict is solved by isolating, isolating or rejecting people.", The Pontiff stressed and continued:"Sometimes we lose sight of what should be at the center of our concerns: their lives, those of their families and those who have also suffered from the circle of violence."

In addition, Francisco noted: "Prison can not be reduced to punishmentsociety has an obligation to seek reinstatement, not rejection. Reintegration begins by creating a system that could be called social health, that is, a society that ensures that relationships do not get sick in the neighborhood, in schools, in squares, the street, at home, in all regions. life in common And above all a society without any excluded or marginal"

About the end and after saying goodbye blessing them and praying that the Virgin Mary protect them, their children and their families; the pope closed: "I pray for you. Please pray for me"

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In a dialogue with Vatican Insider, Carlés said that Franciso's response to the letters he had received in December "should be framed in the rest of his interventions on the criminal issue".

"This letter is another call that Francisco does not use the prison as a place of scrapping, which puts society in difficulty and seeks to provide more opportunities for those who are in a vulnerable situation, before they fall into prison and contribute to their reintegration into society once there, " declared the Argentine jurist.

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And he said that in Argentina, "the situation of prisoners has deteriorated in recent years as a result of growth of the prison population because of the fight against drug trafficking, which is cut by the finer, as always ".