10/31/2020 12:54 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/31/2020 12:56 PM
A climate of tension is registered in some Buenos Aires honeycombs from the notification that the prisoners had that they were not going to have visitors this weekend, as they had supposedly been promised.
The incidents are recorded in the Melchor Romero prison unit, in unit 48 in San Martín and in unit 31 in Florencio Varela.
From the last hours of Friday the ball began to "run" between the pavilions of several prisons of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service and the weather became more dense in the early hours of this Saturday.
The inmates left their cells and climbed onto the roofs of the pavilions.
from where they took down sheets with legends such as
"Yes to our rights. U10. PAB. 4"
, in the case of the detainees in the Melchor Romero prison.
The visits were totally suspended from the start of the quarantine due to the advance of the coronavirus.
In the Buenos Aires area, some prisoners were allowed to access cell phones, a measure that generated controversy.
Now, thanks to several openings in other provincial areas, the inmates consider that they are in a position to receive visits again.
The coronavirus in prisons
The number of inmates in prison or confinement units who contracted coronavirus increased by 48% this month compared to September, with 3,966 confirmed cases, according to a report by the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture.
These data include penitentiary units, police units, mental health institutions, children and adolescents and geriatrics and are counted from March 18 to this week.
Regarding deaths from Covid-19, the report indicates that there were 218 deaths in nursing homes,
53 in penitentiary units
, at least three deaths in police units of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires and two in mental health institutions, the Moyano Hospital and the Korn Hospital of Melchor Romero.
In prison units there were a total of
1,539 confirmed cases
of which 886 were reported as recovered and 53 as deceased, the report said.
He added that, when calculating the contagion and death rate over the total prison population, according to the last census "a mortality rate is obtained lower than that detected in the general Argentine population, but a higher fatality rate."
In this regard, the Commission's report reveals that the death rate is 66.27 per 100,000 inhabitants in the general population, against a rate of 52.67 in prison units.
For its part, the fatality rate registered in the general population is 2.7%, while that registered in the prison population is 3.4%.
For the Commission, these data show "the delicate situation of persons deprived of liberty in penitentiary units, despite having significantly reduced their contact with the outside, given the prevention measures adopted"
They indicated that these measures were sometimes "not accompanied by others that facilitate their communication with family members and access to fundamental rights that influence their re-socialization, such as education and work, through the use of technological tools."
Most of the positive cases of coronavirus in prison units of the Federal Penitentiary Service occurred in prisons in the province of Buenos Aires (263), City of Buenos Aires (56), Neuquén (49), Santa Cruz (30), Chubut ( 13) and Salta (12).
Regarding the Provincial Penitentiary Services, the highest number of infections occurred in Córdoba (403), Buenos Aires province (265) and San Juan (200), Catamarca (84) and Salta (39).
With information from Télam
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