This article analyzes the National Penitentiary Policy Master Plan and the Strategic Plan of the Federal Penitentiary Service 2016/2020, and their merits and shortcomings in the Argentine prison context. Based on these instruments, and following the Brasilia Rules, it is proposed policies to prevent crime through four types of reforms: a) normative, regarding the progressiveness of the sentence, the regulation of the work activity of persons deprived of liberty in the penitentiary situation, the education and training of personnel, as well as the procedure regarding their entry, promotion, and discharge, in addition to the assimilation of the gender perspective in institutional policy; b) infrastructural, that is, the construction of prisons and their organization to reduce overcrowding; c) resocialization of inmates in penitentiary establishments; and finally, d) integration for the str...

The progressive system is the mode of execution of the prison sentence used in Argentina, through which it seeks to promote the “social reinsertion” of prison system inmates   (since   the   constitutional   criminal justice system reform in 1994). This is the central axis on which the institutional dynamics of the Federal Prison Service is structured, both as regards the spatiotemporal organisation of prisoners and workers, and also the relations between them inside the contemporary prison in the country. However, the national law enforcement regulatory process decided that all persons held permanently or temporarily in psychiatric prisons are excluded from this system. The article analyses some of the negative implications this exclusion has on both the development of prisons and the spaces destined for the treatment of mental health in federal prisons. This is based on dat...