9 Ignacio J. Álvarez, legal advisor, and Juan Pablo Albán, legal advisor. for the petitioners seeking the provisional measures: Andressa Caldas, Global Justice Legal Director, Global Justice Center; Estrela Dalva Campos Amoedo, Coordinator of the Comissâo Justiça e Paz da Arquidiocese de Porto Velho; James Louis Cavallaro, Director of International Relations, Co-Director of the Global Justice Center; and Paulo Tadeu Barausse, Coordinator of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Archdiocese of Porto Velho. for the State of Brazil: Tadeu Valadares, Ambassador, Director General of the Department of Human Rights and Social Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; Francisco Soares Alvim-Neto, Ambassador of Brazil in Costa Rica; María Cristina Pereira da Silva, Secretary, Diplomat with the Brazilian Embassy in Costa Rica; André Saboia Martins, Secretary, Interim Chief of the Human Rights Division; Clayton Nunes, Director of the Prison Policy Department of the Ministry of Justice; Danielle Aleixo, Attorney with the International Legal Department of the Office of the Attorney General of the Union/ Advocacia – Geral da União; and Carolina de Campos Melo, International Advisory of the Special Secretariat on Human Rights with the Office of the President of the Republic. 23. The allegations made by the Commission at that public hearing, which are summarized below: a) the State has not adopted the measures necessary to protect the lives and personal safety of the inmates at Urso Branco Prison, as at least 24 inmates have died at that prison and dozens more have been injured during the time the provisional measures ordered by the Court have been in effect. Brazil has to implement immediate measures and adopt policies to prevent crises and further acts of violence at the prison. The risk that new violent events might break out is ever-present; b) the general situation at the prison has deteriorated and the State’s “loss of control” is the same, which points up a certain “inertia on the State’s part in being able to regain control and ensure [the] basic rights to all persons in danger of being murdered”; c) at Urso Branco Prison, the safety of inmates and guards alike is not being guaranteed; there are too few guards watching the prisoners. Moreover, after 6:00 p.m., all guard personnel leave the interior of the prison, enabling acts of violence and guaranteeing the impunity of the perpetrators of such acts. The conditions under which inmates are incarcerated are contrary to the dignity of the human person and do not conform to the minimum international rules on the subject. These conditions have caused tension and suffering;

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