Proyecto Alcatraz is a social reintegration program for young people and adults with behavioral problems, achieved by training in values, education for work, restorative justice and through rugby which is seen as a vehicle for the transformation necessary to change the world from darkness into light.
Participants are gang members that voluntarily decide to take the opportunity to change their lives and to transform violence into virtue.
Proyecto Alcatraz arose in 2003 in reply to the action of three youths who robbed a security inspector at the Hacienda Santa Teresa.
After their arrest they were offered two alternatives: hand back what they had robbed and work for three months in the Hacienda Santa Teresa without pay or go to prison for what they had done.
The three young men decided to take the first option but asked that their fellow gang members also be accepted.
Training in Values
Psycho-educational training
Training for work
Restorative Justice
Rugby
