Overview
- Sala III of the National Chamber of Criminal Cassation annulled the six-hour weekly cap on time in university centers inside federal prisons.
- The panel of judges Pablo Jantus, Alberto Huarte Petite and Eugenio Sarrabayrouse found the lower court’s approval of the SPF plan arbitrary for lacking reasoning and genuine dialogue.
- The court directed the trial judge to restart a participatory roundtable that includes detained students, universities and all parties to design less-restrictive modalities.
- The case stems from Security Ministry Resolution 372/2025 under Patricia Bullrich, which barred student centers and study outside class hours in facilities run by the Federal Penitentiary Service.
- The Procuración Penitenciaria and the Defensoría General secured interim relief in April via a collective habeas corpus, and their cassation win now requires the state to justify any restrictions under strict-scrutiny standards.