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Today consideration of penal issues includes thinking about social inclusion and equal
opportunities. This is genuine reintegration. We cannot rehabilitate and reintegrate prisoners
unless we work on social inclusion. There will be no successful reintegration policy for the
Federal Penitentiary Service if we fail to adapt to the technological and cultural changes
occurring in the world in which we operate.
Independently of socio-cultural considerations, the question of access to new technology has
lodged itself in the public consciousness as an incontrovertible necessity, and increasingly this
widens the gap between those who have access to it and those who don’t.
In the present day there is a deep conviction that without the knowledge to use and live with
a computer, one will in the future be excluded from all of its benefits, which again will create a
deep division in society between those with access and those without.
Against this background the federal government has spent a number of years promoting and
developing a nationwide plan known as Digital Agenda Argentina with the aim of mapping out
a strategy for the use and application of information technology to generate greater inclusion
and promote its development.
More recently, the General Assembly of the United Nations declared access to the Internet to
be a highly protected human right. In an unprecedented declaration, the UN established that
every world government will have an obligation to facilitate a service that is “accessible and
affordable for all”, and guaranteeing an Internet connection will be a priority.
Among other things, the UN has stipulated that preventing Internet access is a violation of
article 19, paragraph 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and requires
that states guarantee Internet access to the whole of society. This Covenant is enshrined in our
Constitution.
Nevertheless it is no less certain that our task is to contribute to the maintenance of the nation’s
security and prevent the commission of crimes using this new technology, so that we need to
study ways of preventing such crimes whilst satisfying the constitutional requirement to apply
the minimum restrictions possible to the flow of information over the Internet.
We have spent a long time evaluating the problem and, in line with official thinking, there is
now a growing fear within the SPF that the lack of contact with computers is becoming a new
form of social exclusion which makes our work to rehabilitate and reintegrate prisoners even
more difficult.
In view of this, and looking to the future, the Federal Penitentiary Service is working hard to
include itself in a national project whose aim is to create an equal, inclusive, progressive and
developed Argentina. To this end the SPF is working along with the DGGI and the ONTI on the
implementation of a complete computerised system, including Internet access, for all prisoners
within the prison system.
This new system, which is still under development, will feature a biometric system of personal
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