Concepción Arenal: journalist and feminist ahead of her time in many things

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Born on January in Ferrol A Coruña the daughter of a liberal Cantabrian father and a conservative Galician mother she attended law classes at the Central University of Madrid for three consecutive years - without being able to declare that she was a woman and without enrolling for that very reason. She was an exceptional woman for her time. I always remember her because she is the matron of criminologists. Some studies that I completed many years ago that I have never practiced but that gave me other perspectives on exclusive social realities already in the s of the last century.

Also because part of my family mother aunts and sister were educated at the school that bears her name located next to the Toledo bridge in Madrid today “invaded” by the M-. One of her passions and activities had to do with the prison system she was a defender CXB Directory of social reintegration. Her phrase “Open schools and prisons will be closed” is an example of the Galician thinker's passion for educating. I think that is why she was chosen to be the reference for graduates in Criminology a “science” that sought to understand the causes of crime and promote the inclusion in society of people who had made mistakes in the form of crimes.



She was a prison visitor and inspector of women's houses of correction.  As a result of these works and her knowledge and reflections she published  Letters to the Delinquents  in which she demands the reform of the Penal Code in force at that time. A journalist by conviction Concepción Arenal dedicated a large part of her articles and press releases to social criticism and education. She was a convinced anti-bullfighting defender of social housing and opposed to “vices” that attacked morality and disturbed social relationships such as alcoholism. She published in newspapers and press magazines for almost forty years -. Among others in  La Iberia La Voz de la Caridad  of which she was the founder and which was on the street from to El Abolicionista  and the  Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza .