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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.
Rocío Mateos, coordinadora del programa Marcos de paz: todas las cárceles deberían ser como Liberté
Rocío Mateos destaca que todas las cárceles deberían ser como Liberté, por su impacto en la memoria, los derechos humanos y la transformación social, resaltando los logros y cambios positivos en ese espacio y la importancia de replicar su modelo en otros contextos penitenciarios.