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and holding us responsible anything happen.” It was reported that “according to officials and fellow inmates,”
Ms. Chinchilla “ha[d] not taken the medicine (hypoglycemic agents) and was off her diet, consuming sugars,
soft drinks, etc., purely for the sake of getting to the General Hospital.” A request was made for Ms. Chinchilla
to be evaluated by the medical examiner. 63 On December 29, 1998, a COF doctor again reported that Ms.
Chinchilla was refusing “to be examined by the Center's doctors” and “reportedly not taking medicine and
eating an uncontrolled diet.”64
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1999
29.
On January 15, 1999, at the request of the Judge, 65 the judiciary Forensic Medicine Service
performed the examination and reported that Ms. Chinchilla showed “awareness in terms of time, her
physical surroundings, and herself as a person, and has a more or less years-long history of diabetes, which is
being treated with oral hypoglycemic drugs.” The report indicated that Ms. Chinchilla could be treated at the
COF.66
30.
On January 6, 1999, the director of the COF reported that a search had been made of the
inmates' cells and a bag found containing two wigs, a necklace, a bracelet, a girdle with padded buttocks, a
black dress, a white dress, a jacket with a printed design, a pair of black shoes, a white camisole, and makeup
“belonging to the inmate: MARIA INES CHINCHILLA.”67 The Center's authorities had reportedly “heard
rumors that the aforementioned inmate was planning to escape during one of her visits to the hospital and it
was presumed, therefore, from the things that were found that she had planned it in advance.” 68
31.
On January 20, 1999, the Judge said that the permission requested by Ms. Chinchilla was
“without merit” because the “medical examiner's report says that she can receive medical treatment for her
diabetes at the Center where she is currently confined.” It was also requested that “the entry of the
appropriate medications” be permitted.”69 The record shows that on January 27, 1999,70 and February 3,
1999,71 Ms. Chinchilla went to the HSJD for an appointment.
63
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Female Orientation Center. Official letter 0125-98,
Communication from Dr. Magdalena Recinos de Barrios to the deputy director of the COF, December 29, 1998. Page 324.
Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
64
Appendix 3. Female Orientation Center. Communication from the doctor at the COF clinic to the Deputy Director of
the COF, December 29, 1998, Appendix 1 to the State’s brief of July 13, 2010.
65
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Judiciary Final Decision No. 429-96 Pf- 7º Decision of the Second
Criminal Enforcement Court of January 4, 1998. Page 325. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
66
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Judiciary Forensic Medicine Division. Communication of January
15, 1998. Page 332. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
67
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Female Orientation Center. Official Letter No. 01-99 Ref.
SRIA_AMDS/acf. Communication from the Director of the Female Orientation Center to the Director General of the Correctional
System, January 6, 1999. Page 327. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
68
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Female Orientation Center. Official Letter No. 01-99 Ref.
SRIA_AMDS/acf. Communication from the Director of the Female Orientation Center to the Director General of the Correctional
System, January 6, 1999. Page 327. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
69
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Judiciary Final Decision No. 429-96 Pf- 7º Decision of the Second
Criminal Enforcement Court of January 20, 1999. Page 333. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
70
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. San Juan de Dios General Hospital. Communication of January 27,
1999. Page 334. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.
71
Appendix 1. Certification of final decision 429-96. Judiciary Final Decision No. No. 429-96 Pf- 7º Decision of the
Second Criminal Enforcement Court of February 4, 1999. Page 335. Appendix 8 to the initial petition.