04/25/2020 - 17:39
- Clarín.com
- Police
After the riot that kept Devoto prison in suspense for nine hours, the authorities met this Saturday with representatives of the prisoners and agreed to form a work team to analyze the situation of the detainees who are included in the groups. risk, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The meeting began after 10 am in the chapel of the Federal Penitentiary Complex of the City of Buenos Aires and lasted until 5 pm. Participants were Juan Martín Mena, Secretary of Justice of the Nation; Emiliano Blanco, national director of the SPF, Daniel Morín, president of the National Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Cassation; and Gustavo Hornos, of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation.
After dialoguing with each other, they held a meeting with delegates from all the pavilions, who in the minutes signed on Friday were represented by detainees Guillermo Álvarez, Carlos Palazzo, Eduardo Vera and Ricardo Castro.
The meeting ended with the signing of an act. According to the document, to which Clarín had access , the authorities promised to form "an interdisciplinary team in order to prioritize the review and status of administrative and judicial procedures related to the subgroups described in the Judicial Agreements of the Chambers of Federal and National Cassation " .
Next, the text details which would be those subgroups: "population at health risk (over 60 years and diseases determined by the health authority); people on parole and assisted terms, those who had temporary exits granted, those with convictions not over three years and those with preventive detention whose compliance exceeds two years, foreigners with expulsion, and people who were convicted under the juvenile criminal regime .
According to what Clarín could know , in the Devoto prison there are about 300 prisoners in conditions of access to house arrest or early release. They are part of the list of 1,279 that the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) made as part of the risk group.
That list was the one that on March 27 last the Federal Chamber of Cassation sent to the courts that have the power of decision on the continuity or not of the confinement of each inmate.
In Devoto, as the Federal Penitentiary Complex of the City of Buenos Aires is known, there are 1,692 detainees housed. It has a declared capacity of 1,683.
Only 385 of the inmates have a sentence. More than 1,300 are processed , that is, awaiting a trial that determines whether they are guilty or innocent.
The riot
As Clarín told this Friday, what altered the spirits in the prison would have been the transfer to the Vélez Sarsfield Hospital of four detainees who were previously isolated and with symptoms of COVID-19. Those four prisoners did not return to prison and the prison population read that as confirmation that these were positive cases.
In the wards where these prisoners lived, fear of a possible outbreak grew.
To this situation was added the official confirmation that a prison prison guard was infected with the virus. And he forced the preventive isolation of six of his companions.
The incidents started on Thursday night and ended exploding on Friday morning, around 8, when a group of detainees managed to take the roof of the prison and started burning blankets and throwing stones.
The tension continued until after 5:00 pm, when an act was signed in which the authorities promised to start a dialogue table that had its first chapter this Saturday. The next meeting was agreed for Thursday morning.
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