The government of Maximiliano Pullaro Advanza with an ambitious penitentiary project in Santa Fe: build the first maximum security prison destined exclusively to drug traffickers and hitmen. The new penalty, Baptized informally as Hellwill be located on the property behind the current Penitentiary Unit 11 of Piñero, and will have the capacity to house 1,152 inmates considered “high profile”, many of them from the narco structures.
The work implies an investment of more than $ 109,000 million and, according to the authorities, will be in operation in 2026. The Minister of Justice and Provincial Security, Pablo CococcioniHe said that the prison will be isolated the most dangerous prisoners and prevent them from continuing to operate from prisons. “Here we are going to contain more than a thousand inmates of very high danger so that they do not cause damage to society,” he said.
The prison seeks to mark a break in Santa Fe prison policy. After years of stagnation in infrastructure, the government promises to raise the prison capacity of just over 6,000 places to more than 16,000 at the end of the mandate. One of the central objectives is to eliminate overcrowding at police stations, a chronic debt of the system.
Total control
The new penitentiary complex will occupy 30 hectares and will have a structure divided into four “minipenal”, each with capacity for 280 inmates, distributed in 12 two -storey pavilions. Each pavilion will house 12 inmates, which will allow a thorough classification of detainees according to their level of danger, gender and security requirements.
“The design will allow us to group the inmates into small nuclei, minimize risks and cut the links with the outside,” said the Secretary of Criminal Affairs, Lucía Masneri. Also It will prevent lower rank criminals to end up co -opted by criminal organizations within the prison.
Although it will be a prison of maximum security, it can accommodate both men and women, which represents a novelty in the provincial prison system.
Pointing technology
Hell It will have a double perimeter wall 10 meters high and 1,800 meters of extensionreinforced with surveillance towers every 70 meters and a central tower of 36 meters for total visual control. The income will be restricted by a government building, where three different types of control scanners will apply.
Each pavilion will include individual pre -abused concrete cells, without physical contact between internal. The meetings with the outside will be through boxes with Blindex. The penalty will have intramurous medical service, helipad, conference room and a surveillance system with signal inhibitors, cameras, and specialized armament to prevent leaks.
In addition to the high security prison, the construction of two other prisons for less dangerous inmates is projected on the same property. In total, 80 hectares were expropriated for the development of the new penitentiary complex.
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