Crimes at Jails 

She was just a girl, the “Nicodemo” (I believe that was her last name), a “Barby”, blonde, beautiful and vulnerable in such a hell, the women’s jail in Ezeiza, immortalized on a sad movie directed by Pablo Trapero.

Gaete, who was the Acting professor at prison, told Radio del Plata:

“There’s a strike from some prisoners since February 27th, and precisely they were some of the ones that came to rescue her when she was hang up from the neck in the women’s bath, trying to reanimate her, while the guards and the rest of the internals were absolutely absent.” She was killed on February 20th, 2000.

Now, they are accused of being the ones that “probably intervened in her death”. And, as the poor girl appeared “hang”, the case was titled as a suicide, but she had injures in all of her body. By the way, she was going to be free in a short time; her case was almost closed.

It’s the ordinary situation of those young and pretty women that arrive to prison, being almost sexually slavered (especially by the other prisoners, who become the owners of the prison), and the object of envy and anger of the rest of them (with the guards as accomplices), just like happened in another real story, also taken to a successful film.

We’re so sorry that the success isn’t in the fact that this things stop happening.

It’s totally aberrant that this situation transcended only because of another prisoner’s denounce. The fact that it wasn’t even shown in any massive media, is worse.

The fact that the “protectors” of Human Rights, refuse to appear publicly to say what they should about this, is the genocidal complicity to the great number of periodical and similar situations in every prison, of men and women.

And also, the fact that Judges don’t do anything is the “normal absence of Justice”, but for the poor there isn’t justice at all.

In the women’s prison of Ezeiza, some prisoners try, desperately, to escape from the diary torture, even trying to get pregnant in the hygienical visits just to be transferred to a less heavy way of life. But this happens in every prison, without distinction.

But we all are accomplices, looking as a society to the other way, and obviously with the license of directives and guards, and the Judicial power in particular, as part of the tripartite powers in this country.

And then, we complain every time robberies end in cruel murders, but what can we wait of the ones that one day will come free, after years of awful torture?

Why do we claim the death penalty, if in most of the cases, prisoners end up dead or mutilated physically or psychically for life?

We shouldn’t forget that -since the return of Democracy-, the conjunct of the Police organization, Gendarmerie included, and the Penitentiary Service of course, is still with the same education programs of Dictatorship years, with no actualization or improvements since then, and not even since the last 60 years.