CAT/OP/ARG/1/Add.1 Contents Paragraphs Page I. National preventive mechanism.............................................................................. 1–2 3 II. Provincial preventive mechanisms.......................................................................... 3–7 4 III. Security forces ........................................................................................................ 8–18 4 Police custody: general issues................................................................................. 9–18 5 Federal police custody ............................................................................................ 19–31 7 A. Conditions of detention .................................................................................. 19–24 7 B. Torture and ill-treatment................................................................................. 25–31 7 Federal prisons ........................................................................................................ 32–95 9 A. General issues................................................................................................. 33–57 9 B. Conditions of detention .................................................................................. 58–85 13 C. Violence during incarceration ........................................................................ 86–95 16 VI. Juvenile detention centres ....................................................................................... 96–101 18 VII. Mental health .......................................................................................................... 102 18 VIII. Information concerning the Province of Buenos Aires ........................................... 103–144 19 A. Police custody................................................................................................. 104–117 19 B. Prisons ............................................................................................................ 118–146 21 IV. V. Annexes*** I. II. Report of the Ministry of Security Reports of the National Directorate of the Federal Prison Service and the Under-Secretariat for Prison Management III. Report of the Community Medicine Directorate IV. Report of the National Secretariat for Children, Young Persons and the Family V. VI. Implementation of the National Mental Health Act No. 26657 Report of the Province of Buenos Aires *** The annexes may be consulted in the archives of the secretariat of the Committee. 2 GE.14-40297

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