The Government established the obligation for all prisoners of the Federal Penitentiary Service to work in the prisons where they are housed. The activities will be unpaid and will last five hours a day, according to Resolution 1346/2024 of the Ministry of Security headed by Patricia Bullrich, published in the Official Gazette this Wednesday,
The measure aims to promote social reintegration and reduce recidivism, as stipulated in the law on the Execution of the Deprivation of Liberty Sentence (No. 24,660) and the National Constitution. In addition, it seeks to reduce idleness among inmates, considered a factor in increasing violence and disorder in prisons.
According to the resolution published today, inmates must carry out maintenance, cleaning, cleanliness and hygiene tasks in their own and common spaces within the establishments to which they belong and are housed.
Starting today, the Government will force prisoners to work in prisons
The Federal Penitentiary Service will be in charge of developing specific plans and schedules for these tasks, in addition to supervising their compliance.
The resolution, signed by the minister Patricia Bullrichemphasizes that these tasks constitute a duty derived from the constitutional mandate to maintain “healthy and clean” prisons and contribute to orderly coexistence within the establishments.
Patricia Bullrich launched a program for all prisoners to work in prisons
Last October, Minister Patricia Bullrich launched the program Let’s get to work at the Ezeiza Penitentiary Complex. It will be implemented throughout the country by the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) with the goal that all prisoners work in prisons.
In this context, Bullrich declared that “this launch is a point very important on the path of transformations and restructuring of the SPF, and the relationship that people deprived of their liberty have with the debt they owe to society.” And he added: ”We know our Constitution well. Prisons have to be healthy and clean, not for punishment but for reintegration. And the National Penal Code says that People deprived of their liberty must be responsible for maintaining prison facilities and paying with their work for what they are detained today.. With this program we are doing neither more nor less than complying with our Penal Code.”
The program began with a pilot test in Complex 4 for women in Ezeiza. Immediately afterwards, the prison staff organized a scheme so that The inmates are in charge of the maintenance of the buildings. Currently, the interiors of the facilities are being finished painting to continue with the exterior, and This will be replicated throughout the country.. Besides, It includes the implementation of biometric systems for schedule control, as well as the classification of inmates will allow efficient assignment of tasks.
At the same time, he indicated: ”Our goal is to give back to society what was taken from it. We do not want to send a criminal back to the street, but we also do not want criminals, instead of working, like anyone who gets up every day and takes a train, a bus, rides a horse or walks to work. anywhere in the country to collect a salary, here Get paid for doing nothing. We are not going to accept that injustice, nor are we going to accept that the salary of a person who does work in prisons is equal to or greater than that of the person who has done things well. “We distinguish good men and women from those who have broken their commitment to maintaining the law and a safe society.”
Source: Ambito
