The Devoto prison ('' es, Cárcel de Devoto''), officially named ''"Complejo Penitenciario Federal de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires"'' was built in 1927 as a medium-security prison and managed by the '' Policia Federal Argentina''. In 1978 a

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broke out, referred to as the "Motín de los colchones", which ended with 60 deaths and 85 injuries. President

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announced in 2011 that the prison would be shut down and the prisoners transferred to a new complex in

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. As of 2020, the Devoto prison remains fully operational with less than 8% of the inmates transferred to other prisons. Plans for the Mercedes complex were scrapped in 2018 and another in

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announced instead.

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