24 C. Significant general issues within the regional overview 53. In addition to the official information provided by the States in response to the questionnaire referred to above, the Inter-American Commission also received a wealth of information from other stakeholders relevant to this topic, either in response to the questionnaire or as part of the other activities carried out in preparing this report. Accordingly, the following are highlighted as issues of relevance in connection with the situation of persons deprived of liberty in the region: 54. In the case of Argentina, at the national level, the most recent statistics available date from 2010. According to those figures, of a total of 59,227 71 people deprived of their liberty, 31,142 (53%) were being held in pretrial detention. In addition, and given that the Argentine State did not submit a response to the questionnaire, the most recent official information on the province of Buenos Aires available to the IACHR was received directly during the visit by the Rapporteur’s office. That information stated that of a total of 30,132 persons deprived of liberty in the province of Buenos Aires in March 2010, official figures indicated that 61% had not received a final judgment. Civil society organizations claimed that the correct figure was 72 70%. 55. Within the Federal Penitentiary System (persons deprived of liberty under the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Nation), as of October 19, 2012, there were a total of 9,800 inmates, of whom 45% were convicted and 55% were still awaiting trial. Of those people in pretrial detention, 91% were men and 9% were women. However, of the total of slightly more than 800 women inmates in the federal system on that date, 62% were in pretrial detention. Of the total pretrial detainees in the federal prison system in 2011, 39% were being held for crimes against property, 39% for drug offenses 73 (Law 23.373), 7% for crimes against people, and the remainder for other offenses. 56. In general terms, of the 24 jurisdictions in Argentina, only the provinces of Chubut, Río Negro, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, and Tierra del Fuego have ratios 71 Response to the questionnaire for the IACHR’s Thematic Report on Pretrial Detention in the Americas, November 2, 2012, National Prison Ombudsman’s Office (PPN). Figures from: the National System on Sentence Execution Statistics (SNEEP), produced by the National Directorate of Criminal Policy for Justice and Criminal Law of the federal Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. 72 IACHR, Press Release 64/10 – IACHR Rapporteurship Confirms Grave Detention Conditions in Buenos Aires Province. Washington, D.C., June 21, 2010, available in Spanish at: http://www.cidh.oas.org/Comunicados/Spanish/2010/64-10sp.htm. With respect to this, the Argentine State indicated in its response to the questionnaire for the Report on the Human Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas that of the 26,000 inmates housed in the prison system of the province of Buenos Aires, 10,000 had received final sentences (38%) and that, of those still at trial (16,000), 30% (around 5,000) had received a first-instance judgment. Response received by means of notes Nos. 203 and 258 of 2010 from the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the OAS. Report of May 11, 2010, presented by the Minister of Justice of the Province of Buenos Aires. 73 Response to the questionnaire for the IACHR’s thematic Report on Pretrial Detention in the Americas, Public Defenders Office, November 1, 2012. The statistics for October 19, 2012, are from the “Weekly Summary of General Prison Population Housed in the Federal Penitentiary Service.”