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In El Salvador, female inmates cultivate the land - and their freedom

AFP, 19 May 2021
Lizbeth Velado has almost completed her eight-year sentence for robbery. Alma Yanira is serving a 10 year jail sentence for extortion. In a farm in El Salvador, they learn how to grow vegetables and raise rabbits for food, as part of a government plan to reduce expenditure on prison food.

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