February 13, 2020.
The Prison Ombudsman’s National Office published “Die in Prison. Deaths in custody and state responsibility ”, a new notebook that recovers the first ten years of application of the Procedure for Investigation and Documentation of Deaths in Prison.
February 13, 2020.
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ruled that women deprived of liberty in Unit No. 31 of the SPF have the right to receive family allowances per child and per pregnancy.
February 11, 2020.
With the objective of auditing the conditions of imprisonment, the Prison Ombudsman’s National Office has an area that regularly visits police stations, gendarmerie detention centers, naval prefecture and airport security police in the city of Buenos Aires.
January 24, 2020.
The Prison Ombudsman’s National Office filed an appeal on November 14 in the context of a house arrest request for a detainee who is in serious health. The procedure was taken before the Criminal and Correctional Oral Court No. 28 of the CABA. A prompt response becomes urgent.
January 24, 2020.
Throughout 2019, different workshops were held on prevention of problematic drug use, health care promotion and theater plays in confinement context for young people deprived of their liberty in the framework of the PPN program, Marcos de Paz.
January 20, 2020.
The PPN conducted a study at the Federal Prison Complex of the CABA between May and June 2019. A series of data reflects a tendency to stagnation and the impossibility of convicted persons advancing in the progressive regime of the sentence.
January 9, 2020.
Since 2012, following the agreement between the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and the Prison Ombudsman’s National Office, the professional practices of advanced students of the legal profession are carried out.
January 14, 2020
Within the framework of an individual file of execution of a person deprived of liberty, the Criminal Enforcement Judge of the Federal Oral Criminal Court of Neuquén ordered the Directorate of the Federal Complex V on January 10 different types of measures in relation to the action of the correctional councils.
January 2, 2020.
Eighty prisoners participated in a rugby match at the Northern Regional Prison No. 7 in the city of Resistencia where they competed for the Hope Cup.
March 10, 2020.
The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation prepared an agreement on the situation of confinement of women who are pregnant or living with their children in establishments of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
March 12, 2020.
The Prison Ombudsman´s National Office requested from the Federal Penitentiary Service reports on the sanitary measures carried out in the different federal prisons in the country in relation to the Covid-19 virus.
March 10, 2020.
In order to improve institutional quality, the acquisition of a property in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy was made. The Prison Ombudsman was present during the signing and in the afternoon he held a meeting with Governor Gerardo Morales to discuss issues related to the work of the PPN in the region.