In a designation unprecedented in the Province, the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service(SPB) appointed a trans prison officer in a hierarchical position. The warden Ángeles Maribel Helguera (35) will coordinate gender diversity policies and will be in charge of strategies for trans detainees.
According to what was officially reported, Angeles likes sports and plays soccer in the Platense League, where he works as a forward for the Villa Montoro team, and also as a midfielder.
“My great challenge is to ensure that trans women deprived of liberty can obtain in their time in prison labor and educational tools that allow them access to a decent life in freedom. The State supports this objective and I understand these processes very well,” he said. .
The warden served in Unit 45 of Melchor Romero. By order of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Province, she was designated as Coordinator in the SPB’s Subdirectorate for Gender Policies.
The warden Ángeles Maribel Helguera (35), new head of the gender area in the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service (SPB).
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“Angeles thus became being the first trans officer to access a hierarchical position of institutional relevance, and will be in charge of the trans prison population housed in the jails of the Province, which are currently located in units 2 of Sierra Chica and 32 of Florencio Varela and in the Warden of Batán, “the institution indicated.
In addition, he stressed that “the measure, taken by virtue of the good performance shown by Helguera in its previous functions, is aimed, among other objectives, at achieving compliance with the postulates of the Gender Identity Law in the penitentiary field.”
And they stressed that “it is part of a progressive implementation of the Trans Labor Quota Law in the Province.”
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According to official information, Helguera “will have among its main functions that of generating, in coordination with the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity Policies, appropriate instances for the identification and management of the problems of the trans population that she is deprived of liberty in Buenos Aires prisons. “
From the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, they stressed that “this decision is part of a set of actions implemented to adapt prison management to standards of security, transparency and respect for human rights.”
Ángeles is from the town of Lisandro Olmos (La Plata). She entered the Cadet School in 2005 and graduated two years later. She fulfilled functions in units 46 and 47 of San Martín, in the Operations Directorate, in Unit 35 of Magdalena, where she began her process of transition of gender change.
The warden Ángeles Maribel Helguera (35), new head of the gender area in the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service (SPB).
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She then returned to Unit 47, where she was recognized as a female staff, and was designated as Chief of Visitors. Some time later she was transferred to the Malvinas Argentinas City Hall, she passed through Unit 33 of Los Hornos and in 2014 her destination was Unit 8. There she worked in the office of Summaries and later as Head of Companions.
In November 2018, she was transferred to Unit 18 of Gorina and in November of last year she went on to serve in Unit 45 of Melchor Romero, until last week she was summoned to the Subdirectorate for Gender Policies, which reports to the Directorate General Assistance and Treatment of the SPB.
They are detained in the SPB 66 trans housed in three units: Unit 2 Sierra Chica, Unit 32 Florencio Varela and Alcaidía Batán.
In Unit 32 Florencio Varela they live in two trans internal pavilions 40, in the Penitentiary Alcaidía of Batán they reside 16 and in Unit 2 Sierra Chica, ten.
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