Tag: jail system

• Friday, May 1st 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Pot banging in Argentina to protest release of inmates; government argues it is to slow spread of COVID-19

  

  Argentines staged loud protests in Buenos Aires and most large cities on Thursday evening, banging pots from balconies, and later applauding, in a show of opposition to the government's release of prisoners, allegedly to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over the release of convicted felons to avoid COVID-19 in the overcrowded jail system

  

  Argentina's Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta reiterated on Wednesday her complete rejection to the release of prisoners, accused or convicted of sexual crimes and gender violence, and asked the Justice to intervene to avoid “psychic and physical re-victimization of assaulted people.”