The transfer agreement covers those convicted and provisionally detained for non-federal crimes. Now its care will be the responsibility of the City. There are more than two thousand detainees in Buenos Aires police stations and wardens.
The Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrichagreed this Thursday with the Head of the Buenos Aires Government, Jorge Macri, he transfer of the penitentiary service in the area of the City of Buenos Aires. Now, the care of the detainees will be the responsibility of the City.
He transfer It will take a transition time. As reported by the City, both governments will begin to work on the transfer of the competencies of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Buenos Aires area in the execution of custodial sentences and the precautionary custody of detainees for non-federal crimes, but whose judgment is in charge of the National Criminal and Correctional Justice and the Criminal, Contraventional and Misdemeanor Justice of the CABA.
The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Security located on Av. Gelly and Obes, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta. Bullrich was accompanied by the Undersecretary of Penitentiary Affairs, Julián Curi, and the National Director of Modernization of the Penitentiary System and Architecture, Desirée Barczuk.
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Meanwhile, Jorge Macri arrived at the meeting with the head and vice chief of the City Cabinet, Néstor Grindetti and Gabriel Sanchez Zinny; and the Ministers of Justice, Gabino Tapia, and of Security, Waldo Wolff.
The situation of prisoners in the City’s police stations
The situation of those detained in Buenos Aires police stations has been a topic of discussion throughout the year. In recent months, there have been a series of leaks that have generated tension between the Nation and City governments.
In police stations and wardens of the City of Buenos Aires There are more than 2 thousand detaineesdouble the number of places available in the district. “The solution is political. Let them take the prisoners. “Let the national government be aware that it has to take charge of this,” the Buenos Aires Minister of Security had claimed. Waldo Woff, to the media Infobae.
In response, from Nation They had pointed out that the City still No there was built a jail in Marcos Pazcommitted to an agreement signed in 2018 with the then government of Mauricio Macri, to transfer the detainees from his district there. “The problem is that we are not in a position to take them to prison today, because we have nowhere to take them,” he had justified Bullrich before La Nación+.
This Thursday it seems that they reached a point of agreement to unblock this situation.
Source: Ambito
