Prisons: there were 16 thousand allegations of torture and 45 thousand prisoners live crammed

the CPM held its 12th annual assessment in prisons in Buenos Aires province, and stressed that the rate of detention in the past 10 years has grown 78 points, of which 37 correspond only to the period 2016-2017. Last year 39.765 were arrested and only 10% had prior court order.

The data concerned not only by the number of criminal acts that occurred in the last section, but it also is a clear overpopulation of prisoners in different prisons of the district, which generates that two of every three detainees in police stations are obliged to sleeping on the floor (3.097 people occupied 1,040 lounge chairs).

43.094 arrests were recorded in the province of Buenos Aires in 2017. Photo: NA “the manodurismo settled 20 years ago in the province. And no Government reversed that security policy that does not satisfy any demand of society. This report, in turn, is marked by the massacre of parchment; the first police recently created a memory site; It had been a clandestine detention center”, said Sandra Raggio, owner of the CPM.

In terms of acts of violence within prisons, it was revealed that you between 2014 and 2017 H1 opened 13.076 investigations, of which, only 37 were caratuladas as torture. The rest are qualified with milder ranges, in expectation of very low penalty and 97% of the cases were filed.

“As a single remedy, the Government proposes the construction of more prisons,” denounces the CPM. Photo: Twitter also, numbers from last year closed with a historic percentage of overpopulation, prompting a harsh critical of government policies. “He admits the crisis of the system of closure but is declared powerless. As the only remedy proposes the construction of more prisons and advances in the consolidation of a punitivismo hard, of long standing in the province and clearly ineffective”, they say.

As the latest data published by the authorities of the CPM, and probably the most striking and worrying are the 16.300 facts of aggravation of conditions of detention denounced in 2017, constituting cases of torture or ill-treatment and cruel, inhuman punishment and degrading, they deepen the “serious violations of human rights”.

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