Overview
- Peru's Cárceles Productivas fairs brought stalls to Lima’s Parque Kennedy and to an INPE bazaar in Arequipa, offering goods made in prison workshops.
- Justice Minister Luis Jiménez Borra led the launch with Viceminister Shadia Valdez Tejada and other officials, highlighting job training and lower reoffense as goals.
- Shoppers found leather goods, textiles, jewelry, furniture, ceramics, clothing and household items produced by inmates in prisons in Arequipa, Tacna and Moquegua.
- The ministry says more than 29,000 inmates work across 545 workshops under the program, supported by over 200 training and sales agreements nationwide.
- Separately, the minister and INPE chief Jorge Cotos Ochoa supervised a cell search in Huaral prison to seize banned items, underscoring that security enforcement runs alongside reintegration work.