78 134.41 2000.125 Later, sporadic transfers of inmates to the CEI Itauguá started in mid 134.42 After the July 25, 2001 fire, there was a massive and immediate transfer of inmates from the Center to the CEI Itauguá and to the Emboscada Regional Penitentiary. There were also smaller-scale transfers to other regional adult penal institutions in the country.126 134.43 Some children transferred from the Center to Emboscada on July 25, 2001, complained of having been beaten by the guards during transit.127 Children living side-by-side with adults in some prisons 134.44 After the Center’s closing many children were transferred to other prisons (supra paragraphs 134.42 and 134.43) where, in some cases, they shared physical space with adult inmates, such as bathrooms, the dining hall, and the prison yard, since these institutions did not have separate infrastructure for juveniles.128 Moreover, the directors of those penal institutions sometimes assigned one or two 125 Cf. note dated June 18, 2001, from Father Michael Sean O'Loingsigh, Deputy Director of the ‘Panchito López’ Center, to Mr. Eustacio Rodríguez Benitez, Director of the Center (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 23, folio 395); plan for transfers from the ‘Panchito López’ Center to the Itauguá Education Center (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 36, volume I, folio 236). 126 Cf. Note dated July 26, 2001, from the Chief of the Fourth Metropolitan Police Precinct to the Criminal Prosecutor on duty at the Public Ministry concerning the July 25, 2001 fire (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 31, volume I, folio 127); the State’s April 26, 2002 communication to the Inter-American Commission (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 4, folio 114); testimony given by Ms. Ana María de Jesús Llanes Ferreira at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic of Paraguay, March 23, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 86); document titled “Adolescents deprived of liberty: some thoughts. Measures proposed by the Vice Minister of Justice, Fernando Vicente Canillas Vera. July 30, 2001” (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 26, folio 400); note dated September 17, 2001, from the Office of the Director General of Human Rights of Paraguay to the Deputy Minister of Justice (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 30, folio 428); Note dated July 26, 2001, from DEJAP Police Chief Fermín Valenzuela Bado, to the criminal prosecutorial agent on duty (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 27, folio 483); report on the fire at the Center on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 39, folios 496-497); August 15, 2001 report sent by an unidentified commission to the Ministry of Justice and Labor, concerning visits to the Villarrica and Coronel Oviedo prisons (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 45, folio 544); March 2002 report that the Ministry of Justice sent to the Inter-American Commission concerning measures taken to comply with the recommendations made by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights in its “Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Paraguay” (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the application and observations on the pleadings and motions, appendix 11, volume I, folios 243 et seq.); document titled “Case file No. 9199, titled “Inmate Riot” on July 25, 2001 (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 24, folio 976). 127 Cf. August 2, 2001 note from the Public Ministry to the Attorney General of the State (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 44, folios 539-543 and file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 31, volume I, folio 190). 128 Cf. Note dated September 17, 2001, from the Office of the Director General of Human Rights of Paraguay to the Deputy Minister of Justice (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 30, folio 428); testimony given by Ms. Ana María de Jesús Llanes Ferreira at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic of Paraguay, March 23, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the InterAmerican Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folios 88-89); August 15, 2001 report sent by an unidentified commission to the Ministry of Justice and Labor concerning visits to the Villarrica and Coronel Oviedo prisons (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 45, folio 544).