In Devoto there is a prison and that prison has 1,900 prisoners, 6 units, a headquarters of the University of Buenos Aires. The project to move it has been going on for years, so many that it became a kind of good fortune for the neighbors and for the prisoners.
But the pandemic and political disputes threw this project overboard. The Nation provided the money and the work was 70 percent complete. The City did not do its part. Of the 1, 900 deprived of their liberty, 400 have a final sentence and should be transferred to prisons under the custody of the Federal Penitentiary Service. It is estimated that it will be approximately approximately 20 years before the project is completed. The question becomes evident: this time they are going to move the Devoto prison? "So far, the budget is being finalized, but there is political will to complete it, and once again, with a national management with a little more affinity with the previous one," says the new Undersecretariat of National Security.