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First meeting of 2010

First meeting of the Cycle 2010

Free Chair of Human Rights "Jaime Glüzmann"

On Tuesday 11 May saw the first Cycle 2010 meeting of the Chair Free Human Rights "Jaime Glüzmann" in the Faculty of Humanities National University of Plate.

On this occasion, he spoke about prison conditions, hunger strikes and Reform Releases of the hand of specialists Daroqui Alcira, BA in Sociology, Robert Cipriano Garcia, Coordinator of the Committee against Torture of the Commission Provincial . Memory For Racosta and Azucena, Coordinator of The Singer. After

introduce the panelists, Dr. Rodriguez, Deputy General Assembly Permanent for Human Rights La Plata, said the position of the APDH on the prison situation and in particular on the Hunger strike 53 days ago holding detainees in Prison Units of the Province of Buenos Aires . Thus, said that the Agency is connected to the said strike and the demands of the detainees in their claim.

The hunger strike is a measure of resistance to achieve compliance with the covenants and conventions that the National Government is committed to meeting through its Constitution.

The representative of the Committee Against Torture , Roberto Cipriano, characterized the prison situation in the Province of Buenos Aires today. Much of the data offered by the panelists were drawn from the reports submitted annually by the Committee Against Torture , itself a source of recognized legitimacy. The speaker said that our prison system has been formed with the doctrine of National Security -a torture-practicing, qualifying this term modalities employing the prison service to intimidate the people in prison: hit with Facas, permanent transfers, "Gum" (confinement in a cell itself indefinitely.)

According Cipriano, most of the prison population is in pretrial detention. 85% of women and 75% of boys are in this situation.

Racosta Azucena Meanwhile, Coordinator of La Cantora said the criminalization as a source of work for various professionals, sociologists, psychologists and journalists and imprisonment as a business. Moreover, said the dispersal prisons throughout the Province of Buenos Aires (the circuit called "field" consists of the units housed in rural areas) represents the agricultural breakthrough that our country suffered and has been replaced by the prison business. The speaker showed some data, such as the existence of 30,200 prisoners in 54 prisons and 55.

Finally his turn came to Alcira Daroqui, sociologist specializing in research on prison issues, who noted the lack of information mainly with available to both researchers and organizations who work the prison theme. Sociologist attributed the fact of the absence of information a publicly available premeditated strategy. In turn, linked this problem to the long tradition of Argentina for the contempt of the public.

misinformation highlighted as most paradoxical lack of information on the number of people detained in police stations and detained in prisons, two institutions that belong to the police and the Prisons Service, respectively, ie the State. However, he noted that the main complaints should be addressed to Justice.

On the other hand, in a characterization about the prison, the degree linked his rise and development with the social question, saying that prison and the factory have acted as a means to discipline and govern the social question.

is important to highlight the connection that all the panelists regarding the progress of the condemnation of genocide, on the one hand, and lack of political commitment to regulate the current prison situation. In this sense, it was very clear the contribution of Alcira Daroqui by stating that: "Argentina played the practices that enabled the possibility of a genocide (...) We do not know how many detainees have in the country of disappearances."

The Bachelor Daroqui built an analysis of the holding company, whose main objective is to build a precarious subject, dessubjetivizado, and for which children and youth are a critical point.

Nearing the end of his presentation, highlighted the frivolity of the State to consider today to children and young people as subjects of rights, when systematically along national history they have been relegated to being objects of law.

TUESDAY, May 11

SCHOOL OF HUANIDADES 48 E / 6 & 7.

First meeting: "The prison situation. Hunger strike

Panelists:

Roberto Cipriano

Advocate, coordinator of the Committee Against Torture of the Commission for Memory.

Alcira Daroqui

Sociologist, Coordinator of the Study Group on the Penal System and Human Rights (GESPyDH) at the Gino Germani Research Institute, Member and Researcher, Centre Prisons of the National Procurement National Penitentiary, Associate Professor in charge of the Research Seminar "Challenges in the investigation of criminal social control agencies" Sociology of Race.

Azucena Racosta

degree in social communication, coordinator of Radio Singer and teacher and researcher at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP).