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Sources for Argentina

Every source used for the Argentina pages, what each supports, how it was accessed, and where its scope ends.

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The Argentina pages rest on the Constitution (the Georgetown PDBA text), the Government's federal-forces page, the Federal Code of Criminal Procedure sources, the Official Gazette for the transfer of the Federal Penitentiary Service, and the World Prison Brief. Each was confirmed on 27 July 2026 and independently re-checked — the adversarial pass found no corrections — and the World Prison Brief figures were re-confirmed by hand.

The full register, with the precise scope and stated limitations of every source, is published in the repository at docs/research/argentina-source-register.md.

Sources

Sources

  1. Constitution of the Argentine Nation (1853, reformed 1994)

    Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University) — official constitutional text · Legislation · 1853 · link verified 2026-07-27

    The Constitution of the Argentine Nation (1853, comprehensively reformed 1994), confirmed verbatim in two independent passes. Supports Art. 5 (each province shall enact its own constitution and guarantee its own administration of justice); Art. 75 inc. 12 (Congress enacts the national codes — Civil, Commercial, Criminal, etc. — "without such codes altering the local jurisdictions", their application corresponding to the federal or provincial courts by subject-matter); Art. 108 (the judicial power of the Nation is exercised by a Supreme Court of Justice and inferior tribunals); Art. 110 (life tenure during good behaviour and irreducible compensation — judicial independence); Art. 114 (the Council of the Magistracy selects judges and administers the judiciary); Art. 120 (the Public Ministry is an independent organ with functional autonomy and financial self-governance — a fourth, extra-branch body); Art. 121 (the provinces keep all power not delegated to the federal Government — the reserved-powers clause); and Art. 86 (the Ombudsman, Defensor del Pueblo). Establishes the federation, the national codes applied by provincial courts, the autonomous Public Ministry, and the reserved-powers rule.

  2. Argentina — the federal security forces (Ministry of Security)

    Government of Argentina (argentina.gob.ar) · Government publication · link verified 2026-07-27

    The Government of Argentina's page on the federal security forces, read directly. Supports that the four national forces — the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), the National Gendarmerie (GNA), the Naval Prefecture (PNA) and the Airport Security Police (PSA) — sit under the national Ministry of Security. Establishes the federal police tier (each of the provinces additionally has its own provincial police under the reserved-powers rule).

  3. Federal Code of Criminal Procedure (CPPF) — accusatory system (Law 27.482)

    Ministerio Público Fiscal / InfoLEG (Argentina) · Legislation · 2019-01-07 · link verified 2026-07-27

    The Federal Code of Criminal Procedure (originally Law 27.063, reformed and renamed by Law 27.482, published in the Official Gazette on 7 January 2019), confirmed in two independent passes via the Public Prosecution Service and InfoLEG. Supports that the federal criminal process moved from an inquisitorial to an accusatory/adversarial system in which the Public Prosecution Service (Ministerio Público Fiscal) directs the criminal investigation, with the police acting as auxiliaries; and that the system is being implemented in phases across the federal jurisdictions.

  4. Decree 8/2024 — transfer of the Federal Penitentiary Service to the Ministry of Security

    Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina · Legislation · 2024-01-03 · link verified 2026-07-27

    Decree 8/2024 (Official Gazette, early January 2024), confirmed in two independent passes via the Official Gazette. Supports that by its Article 2 the Federal Penitentiary Service (Servicio Penitenciario Federal), a decentralised body of the Ministry of Justice, was transferred to the Ministry of Security — so that both the federal police forces and the federal prison service now sit under the Ministry of Security. Cited for the current ministerial placement of the federal prison service.

  5. World Prison Brief — Argentina

    Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck, University of London · Academic · link verified 2026-07-27

    The World Prison Brief country page for Argentina (compiled by ICPR from the Ministry of Justice SNEEP data), read directly and re-confirmed by hand. Supports a total prison population of 133,585 at 31 December 2024 — a figure that includes 12,885 people held in police lock-ups (comisarías) — a rate of 284 per 100,000, and an official capacity of 98,199 (not including police lock-ups) at the same date, giving an occupancy level of 122.9% for the prison system proper. Prisons are run at both the federal (Servicio Penitenciario Federal) and provincial levels, so this is a national aggregate; the occupancy compares the prison-system population and capacity, both excluding the police lock-ups that the total includes.