Argentina’s CSJN orders the Provincial Supreme Court to take substantive measures against prison crowding in Buenos Aires Province
The ruling recognizes the gravity of jail and prison overcrowding in the province. Since 2012, the number of persons permanently jailed in police stations has risen 426%.
Places of confinement: the provincial state must adopt urgent measures
In the 163rd period of IACHR hearings, the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (CPM), Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and the Public Appeals Defender exposed the crisis in the system of confinement in the province of Buenos Aires and called on the provincial and national states to take measures to reduce overcrowding, overpopulation, inhuman conditions, lack of access to health, and torture in prisons.
Deaths in Pergamino police station are the responsibility of provincial state
Seven people detained in a Pergamino police station died in a fire. After the Verbitsky ruling, in which confinement in police facilities was deemed unconstitutional, the number of people held in such establishments went down to 600. Today it is at 3017.
