Argentina's federal prison service subjected hundreds of prisoners to beatings, isolation and other ill-treatment in 2025, the national prison ombudsman's torture registry found.

The 2025 annual report of Argentina's National Registry of Cases of Torture and/or Ill-Treatment (RNCT), run by the Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación with the Buenos Aires Provincial Commission for Memory and the University of Buenos Aires, recorded 425 victims describing 1,282 acts of torture or ill-treatment by the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) and related federal custody, including 299 physical assaults, 118 degrading body searches and 78 isolation cases. In Buenos Aires province's penitentiary service it recorded 560 victims and 3,451 acts, and separately 367 victims describing 1,276 acts of ill-treatment by police during arrest, transfer and detention in police stations.