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Mother Antonia Brenner, better known as Mother Antonia (Spanish: Madre Antonia; December 1, 1926 – October 17, 2013) was an American religious sister and activist who chose to reside and care for inmates at the notorious maximum-security La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, Mexico. [1]
Jordan and Sullivan authored The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail (The Penguin Press, 2005). In 2006, the book won the Christopher Award, which "salutes media that affirm the highest values of the human spirit." [citation needed]
La Mesa State Penitentiary is a prison in La Mesa, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.It is considered "one of the most notorious prisons in Latin America". [1] The prison was built for 2,000 inmates and had 2,500 inmates in the 1990s, but the number increased to over 7,000 by the 2010s. [2]
She said that Albino's mother, Antonia, had always thought about Albino up until her death in 2005. She kept a newspaper clipping of the article about his kidnapping in her wallet, and a photo of ...
Mary Clarke Brenner (Antonia) (1926–2013), Founder of the Eudists Servants of the Eleventh Hour (California, USA – Tijuana, Mexico) [76] [77] Brendan Joseph Kelly (1998–2013), Child of the Diocese of Arlington (Virginia, USA) [73] Ignatius Anthony Catanello (1938–2013), Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn; Titular Bishop of Deultum (New York, USA)
With tears in her eyes, her mother, Antonia Quiñones, opened up while the two sat in the kitchen. It wasn’t easy, recalled her mother, now 63. It was a memory that she had buried away, trying ...
Her advocacy in prison phone justice began after her 17-year-old son went to prison in 2004. At the time, Lewis didn't know anything about how the prison phone call system worked, but she knew she ...
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail (1st ed.). New York: Penguin Group. ISBN 014303717X. Romero, Fernando (2008). Hyperborder: The Contemporary U.S.? Mexico Border and Its Future (1st ed.). New York: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1568987064. Standish, Peter (2004).