Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar 9, 2017 / 00:02 am
The deaths of seven inmates in a fire at a police station in Pergamino, Argentina has brought renewed criticisms of the "inhumane situation" experienced in prisons in the country.
On March 2, seven people died inside Police Station No. 1 in Pergamino in an incident ending with a fire that was caused, according to preliminary information, by a fight between the prisoners.
In their statement entitled "Where is your brother?" the National Secretariat of Prison Pastoral Care invited "everyone to become aware of this inhumane situation that so many of our brothers live in, and we make an urgent demand to those directly and immediately responsible: 'Don't put off actions that cannot wait!'"
The secretariat expressed its sorrow to the families and renewed its "commitment for life" in addition asking that "God in his great mercy may grant us the gift to discover every person as a brother and act accordingly."