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Punishment cells: the dictatorship systematized them and democracy did not abolish them
At Batán Penitentiary Unit Nº15 the punishment cells —the extreme isolation device of the Buenos Aires prison system— were abolished. Three public bodies —CELS, the National Penitentiary Ombudsman and the Provincial Memory Commission—, the Argentine government itself before the UN Committee against Torture, an institutional investigation by the Ombudsman directed by Alcira Daroqui and Carlos Motto, and survivor testimonies from the Camps Circuit describe those cells as a common matrix with the dungeons of State terrorism.
Proyecto Mecha closes: the suggestion boxes in Batán have been abolished
After nine years of campaigns, complaints, and a radio program built inside Batán without institutional permission, Proyecto Mecha announces its closure — mission accomplished. Block 7 of Unidad Penal N°15 in Batán has ceased to be a solitary confinement block.
Updates on the Paperwork for Common-Law Partners at Batán Prison
A pilot project at Batán Prison introduces permanent visit records to document common-law relationships, sets a 30-to-90-day waiting period for new admissions, and improves visiting facilities with new lockers and clearer rules on family ties.