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Complex number one, Boulogne Sur Mer, is reserved only for inmates who are on
trial, with specific exceptions in cases in which the life or integrity of an individual
faces risk in facilities for inmates who have been sentenced.
Complexes numbers two and three, San Felipe and Almafuerte, are reserved for
inmates whose final sentences have been issued and are at the disposal of the
Sentence Execution judges of the Province or the Federal courts.
Unit number three, El Borbollón, is reserved exclusively for women.
For their part, young adults between the ages of 18 and 21 are held in the San
Felipe complex in an area totally separated from the rest of the prison population.
In the same way, the inmates undergoing a test period for execution of sentences
of deprivation of liberty under the regimen provided for in Law No. 24.660 are
housed in the San Felipe complex.
Finally, the ones serving the final stages of their sentences are housed in unit
number four, Gustavo André. Likewise, the State reported that the Gustavo André
unit, in Lavalle, is housing 54 convicted inmates who enjoy “test period privileges”
where they do occupational therapy tasks - principally of a rural kind - farm work,
and maintenance.
18. Regarding this, both the representatives and the Commission recognized the progress
with regard to the separation of the inmates into categories. However, the Commission
highlighted that completion of this task is still pending, considering that as of the end of
2009 more than 80 individuals on trial were still located in the internal section and the
inmates who had been convicted did not receive differentiated treatment according to their
ages, status of completion of the sentence, or the nature of the crime for which they were
convicted. It also highlighted that a small percentage of the detainees in that penitentiary
system are elderly individuals who could benefit from measures that are alternatives to
deprivation of liberty and commented that a small percentage of the penitentiary
population of a homosexual orientation is being housed in a special block with detention
conditions that are "very different" from the others.
19. The Court highlights the progress made by the State with regard to separating the
inmates into different categories, noting that this progress has had positive effects with
regard to the security situation of the inmates and denotes the State’s willingness to
comply with international standards on the treatment of individuals deprived of liberty.
3. Internment measures with security and guard personnel
20. The State expressed that in order to achieve the peaceful coexistence of the inmates,
it has distributed the penitentiary population among different blocks that themselves have
several levels of security. In the Boulogne Sur Mer complex there are 471 security
personnel officers and 196 individuals assigned to the administrative personal. Likewise,
the complex has 287 inmates who are isolated because of problems with communal living,
of which 192 have done so voluntarily and 95 under court order. In this context, the prison
facility has 14 blocks, the majority of which allow free movement from 0700 hrs. to 1900
hrs. and three of which have night lockdown. Only two blocks allow free movement 24
hours, one reserved for inmates without behavioral problems and the other for those "with
a different sexual condition." Likewise, the State indicated that it has set up a unit there
with capacity to hold 60 convicted inmates facing exceptional circumstances. The rest of