March 09, 2020.
The Delegate of Non-Penitentiary Centers on the Northern Border, Oscar Zacoutegui, presented a collective habeas corpus in favor of twenty-six people detained in a cell with capacity for eight. The Federal Court of Paso de los Libres partially granted this action.
March 06, 2020.
Every March 8th becomes a special day to make visible the multiple violence and inequalities that affect women and LGBT community in our societies. In Argentina, more than a thousand women and trans and cross-dressers are detained in federal dependencies, which make up 7.2% of the population deprived of liberty.
Photo credit: Nadia Petrizzo
February 27, 2020.
The Prison Ombudsman’s National Office and the Human Rights Observatory of the University Extension Secretariat of the National University of Córdoba (UNC) organize the diploma course "Human Rights and confinement contexts".
February 18, 2020.
On February 12, a meeting was held in Module III of the Ezeiza prison in which the detainees and members of judicial and human rights organizations participated to discuss the conditions of detention.
February 18, 2020.
The Department of Investigation of the Prison Ombudsman’s National Office published the fourth report on the evolution of persons deprived of liberty in the Federal Penitentiary Service with penalties of up to 36 months.
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 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.