| Prison Name: | Federal Correctional Complex of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires |
| Pushpin Map: | Argentina Buenos Aires City |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Buenos Aires |
| Pushpin Label: | Devoto Federal Prison |
| Coordinates: | -34.615°N -58.5148°W |
| Status: | Operational |
| Population: | 1800+ |
| Opened: | 1927 |
| Managed By: | Servicio Penitenciario Federal |
The Devoto prison (Spanish; Castilian: Cárcel de Devoto), officially named "Complejo Penitenciario Federal de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires" was built in 1927 as a medium-security prison and managed by the Policia Federal Argentina. In 1978 a prison riot broke out, referred to as the "Motín de los colchones", which ended with 60 deaths and 85 injuries.[1]
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced in 2011 that the prison would be shut down and the prisoners transferred to a new complex in Mercedes, Buenos Aires. As of 2020, the Devoto prison remains fully operational with less than 8% of the inmates transferred to other prisons. Plans for the Mercedes complex were scrapped in 2018 and another in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires announced instead.[1]