Argentina
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Read our selection of press reports about this country.
Argentina : con cifras escalofriantes, la CPM presentó su informe anual sobre las cárceles y comisarias bonaerenses
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Info blanco sobre negro
Argentina : según la CPM, cada semana mueren tres presos en las cárceles de la provincia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Eleco
Argentina : denunciaron al menos 343 maltratos y torturas en cárceles federales en el primer semestre de 2017
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish versionSource — mdz
Argentina : admitieron hábeas corpus para presos alojados en cárceles del sur provincial
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — La Capital
Argentina: over five hundred prisoners on hunger strike call for justice
Five hundred prisoners, from Villa Urquiza prison (province of Tucumán), decided to go on a hunger strike on August 23. They were joined, on August 30, by 54 new strikers from Concepción prison, located in the south of the province.
Argentine: el nuevo Código Procesal Penal y las cárceles en Tucumán
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El Tucumano
Argentina: denunciaron al Servicio Penitenciario Bonaerense por muerte y represión
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — La izquierda diario
Argentina: piden remediar el riesgo sanitario por los desechos cloacales de dos cárceles
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El dia
Argentina : la Suprema Corte apura al gobierno bonaerense para que mejore las cárceles y las comisarías
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Infobae
Argentina : exponen ante la CIDH la crítica situación de las condiciones de encierro en cárceles provinciales
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — La nacion
Argentina : los institutos de menores “a veces son peores que las mismas cárceles”
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — EL DIARIO del centro del país
Argentina : abrir otras puertas
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Página12
Argentina : hubo 673 casos de torturas en cárceles y comisarías bonaerenses durante 2016
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Infocielo
Argentina: "Recurren a la CIDH para que el Estado 'se abstenga' de aplicar el fallo de la Corte que beneficia a represores"
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Ámbito Financiero
Argentina: "Explotación a los presos en el Servicio Penitencial Bonaerense"
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Tiempo Argentino
L’Argentine lance un vaste chantier pour augmenter les places de prison
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — RFI
Argentine : sept détenus brûlés dans une mutinerie
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French or the Spanish version.Source — Tribune de Genève
Argentina: La Cárcel como Depósito
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish versionSource — Anfibia
Argentina : detuvieron al Subdirector del Servicio Penitenciario, 7 agentes y 2 internos
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Jujuy al Momento
Argentina : María Eugenia Vidal removió a toda la cúpula del Servicio Penitenciario Bonaerense
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — La Nacion
Argentina packs prisons with drug offenders
The number of prison inmates in Argentina convicted for drug offenses has more than doubled in a decade, a red flag for the country’s growing role in the drug trade and the risk of future prison overcrowding. The prison population sentenced on the basis of Law 23.737, Argentina’s anti-drug legislat…Source — Insight Crime
Argentina : el lado más oscuro de las cárceles
La Nación accedió en exclusiva a las imágenes de los relevamientos realizados por la Procuraduría de Violencia Institucional (Procuvin) en diferentes prisiones; cuáles fueron las principales violaciones a los Derechos Humanos detectadasSource — s - La Nación
Argentina : inmates live with rats, bats and garbage in jails
“The nation’s prisons will be healthy and clean, since they are for security purposes and not to punish the convicts held in them”, the Argentine constitution says, but the fact is that inmates in those jails share their cells with rats, cockroaches and, according to some complaints, even bats.Source — Fox News Latino
Argentina : prisoners gain new focus through pinhole photography
“People think prison is like a horror film,” says Celeste Moyano, sitting in the library of the Unidad 31 women’s penitentiary outside Buenos Aires. She participates in a photography workshops facilitated by YoNoFui, a social organisation that runs support and education schemes for women both in an…Source — BBC
