Paraguayan prisoners set up leathergoods factory

12/08/2015
Twenty-five people detained in a penitentiary in Paraguay have been given the go-ahead by the country’s ministry of justice to operate a small leathergoods and footwear factory inside Tacumbú prison in  Asunción.

Justice minister, Sheila Abed, formally opened the facility at the start of August, saying it was a welcome part of a wider programme of prisoner rehabilitation. She said offering prisoners the chance to work would help them become part of society again and would also serve to “humanise prisons”.

The government has provided machinery and materials.