71 134.22 In general, the inmates’ court cases moved very slowly.93 134.23 Although the inmates had legal counsel,94 it was, in general, unsatisfactory.95 134.24 The constant threats to the inmates’ personal safety, the overcrowding and the Center’s grossly inadequate resources and infrastructure created a sense of desperation in the inmates and made them more prone to violence.96 Rather than being rehabilitated at the Center to successfully rejoin society, the inmates endured 93 Cf. expert testimony given by Mr. Luis Emilio Escobar Faella before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights at the public hearing held on May 5, 2004; document titled “‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Correctional Facility, 1998 Report” (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the application and comments on the pleadings and motions, appendix 13, volume I, folio 293); testimony given by young Francisco Ramón Adorno in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, March 26, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, Commission’s appendix, folio 184). 94 Cf. Report on the February 11, 2000 fire, prepared by the Office of the Director General of Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice and Labor (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 2, folios 88-93 et seq.); list of children and adolescents sent to adult prisons (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 41, folio 515 et seq.); “‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Correctional Facility, 1998 Report” (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the application and comments on the pleadings and motions, appendix 13, volume I, folio 284); February 22, 2001 report by the person assigned to intervene in the ‘Panchito López’ Center, to the Deputy Minister of Justice concerning the activities undertaken in the wake of the February 2001 fire (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 21, volume I, folio 101); testimony given by young Francisco Ramón Adorno in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, March 26, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, Commission’s appendix, folio 184); testimony given by Ms. María Elizabeth Flores Negri at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic of Paraguay, March 24, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 117); testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights at the public hearing held on May 3, 2004; September 17, 2001 report sent by the Office of the Director General of Human Rights of the Republic of Paraguay to the Deputy Minister of Justice (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 30, folio 431). 95 Cf. March 2002 report that the Ministry of Justice and Labor sent to the Inter-American Commission concerning the measures the State had taken to comply with the recommendations made by the Inter-American 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, folio 241); testimony of Ana María de Jesús Llanes Ferreira, magistrate, 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 85); testimony of Maureen Antoinette Herman, an official with PROJOVEN, given 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, folio 92); testimony given by young Clemente Luis Escobar González in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, March 30, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the InterAmerican Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, representatives’ appendix, folio 235); testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights at the public hearing held on May 3, 2004 . 96 Cf. testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, December 10, 1993, which is in the file for the petition of generic habeas corpus filed with the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, on behalf of the juveniles in the ‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Reeducation Institute (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 1B, volume II, folio 371); April 12, 1994 report by psychiatric experts Dr. Carlos Alberto Arestivo, Lic. Genaro Rivera Hunter and Lic. Mario Torres, which is in the file of the petition of generic habeas corpus filed with the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, on behalf of the juveniles in the ‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Reeducation Institute (file of appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 1D, volume II, folio 381).

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