B.2 Institutional strengthening and training of judicial and administrative officials on the rights of persons deprived of liberty 271. In its merits report, the Commission recommended that the State ensure the institutional strengthening and training of the judicial authorities responsible for the enforcement of sentences, so that they can effectively perform their role as guarantors of the rights of persons deprived of liberty. 272. The State argued that it has implemented a number of training programs for the judicial authorities responsible for the enforcement of sentences. 368 In its brief of final arguments, it indicated that, in addition to this effort, “in 2006, the Law of the Penitentiary System was decreed, which regulates the guarantees of persons deprived of liberty as well as the administrative organization of prisons and the training of staff in their role as guarantors of the rights of persons confined in those facilities.” The State considered that it has “optimal mechanisms and programs for institutional strengthening that guarantee respect for the rights of persons deprived of liberty.” 273. With regard to the foregoing, the Court appreciates the information provided by the State and urges it to give continuity to the training programs for the judicial authorities responsible for the enforcement of sentences, and to promote institutional strengthening mechanisms and programs in order to guarantee respect for the rights of persons deprived of liberty. 274. Nevertheless, in order to avoid a repetition of the facts of this case, the Court orders the State to implement training measures for the judicial authorities in charge of the enforcement of sentences, prison authorities, medical and health care staff and other competent authorities involved with persons deprived of their liberty, so that they can effectively fulfill their roles as guarantors of their rights, particularly of the rights to personal integrity and life, the protection of health in situations requiring medical treatment, as well as their obligations to exercise adequate conventionality control when ruling on different types of requests from persons deprived of liberty. 275. Likewise, the Court considers it pertinent to require the State to implement a series of information and orientation sessions on human rights to persons deprived of liberty at the Women’s Orientation Center. These sessions should present information concerning the nature of those rights, their content and how such rights can be exercised by persons who are incarcerated, in accordance with international standards, with special emphasis on the protection of health and the rights to personal integrity, life and non-discrimination, together with expeditious judicial or administrative mechanisms that are appropriate and effective for processing their claims when they consider that their rights have been infringed. During these sessions, reference should also be made to this judgment and to the international human rights obligations derived from the treaties to which Guatemala is a party. The State referred to the training programs implemented by the Judiciary’s Criminal Division to train the judicial authorities responsible for the enforcement of sentences; in addition, since February 2014, "the Specialization Program was coordinated for the Courts of that branch." This program includes training modules in the following topics: a) Adversarial reconversion plan for the enforcement of sentences, b) International standards for the enforcement of sentences, c) Re-socialization tools, d) Control of conditions of detention, e) Hearings based on the adversarial model and f) Workshops to develop skills for conducting hearings. The State pointed out that during the last four years different training programs have been implemented with judges and magistrates of the Jurisdictional Body for Criminal Enforcement. 368 86

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