MEXICO CITY (RNS) Inmates in the Mexican capital’s prisons reenact the Stations of the Cross every year during Holy Week.
The Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration is a facility that is located on the city’s east side, in the sprawling working class district of Iztapalapa. It houses some 5,000 inmates who come from all over Mexico City.
As in other prisons in the city, the majority of the inmates come from “red zones” or working class barrios with the highest levels of crime, drug addiction and homicide.
Please click any photo below for a slideshow. Photos by Jair Cabrera for Religion News Service (Text translated by Andrew Chesnut)
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Last Supper. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Passion of Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Passion of Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration reenact the Passion of Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration reenact the Passion of Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Passion of Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Passion of Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Stations of the Cross. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City reenacting the Stations of the Cross. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- Inmates at Santa Marta’s reenacting the Passion of the Christ. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- An inmate at the Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City playing the role of Judas is hanged. Photo by Jair Cabrera
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- The face of Christ on a cloth as part of the reenactment of the Stations of the Cross at Santa Marta Men’s Center for Social Reintegration in Mexico City. Photo by Jair Cabrera
