The Argentine Federal Penitentiary Service (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

: , SPF) is an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

federal agency responsible for the administration of the national

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...

system. The legal unification of the prison system occurred by Decree Law No. 412 of January 14, 1958, which was ratified on October 23 of that year."History." Argentine Federal Penitentiary Service
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. Retrieved on July 23, 2010.

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* Federal law enforcement agencies of Argentina Prison and correctional agencies {{Argentina-struct-stub