2 by the Commission pending the Court’s decision on the petition for provisional measures, which the President decided to submit to the consideration of the full Court. Finally, the President urged that the State should take all necessary steps to protect the life and personal integrity of the persons in favor of whom the provisional measures were requested. 3. The Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “Court” or “the Inter-American Court”) of November 22, 2004, wherein the Court resolved: 1. to request that the State immediately adopt all necessary measures to protect the life and personal integrity of all detainees and inmates of the Mendoza Provincial Prison and of the Gustavo André Unit, located at Lavalle, as well as all other persons found within the premises. 2. to request that, as a protective measure adequate to the present situation, the State investigate the facts that gave rise to the adoption of these provisional measures in order to identify the persons to be held liable for said events and punish them accordingly. […] 4. The Order of the President of the Court of March 18, 2005, whereby the President resolved to summon the Inter-American Commission, the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures and the State, to a public hearing to be held in Asunción, Paraguay, at the seat of the Supreme Court of Justice of such country, as from May 11, 2005, so that the Court would hear the arguments on the facts and circumstances relating to the implementation of said measures. 4. The public hearing on the provisional measures held in Asunción, Paraguay, at the seat of the Supreme Court of Justice of said country, on May 11, 2005. 5. The record signed by the representatives of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Commission” or “the Inter-American Commission), the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures (hereinafter “the representatives”) and the State, submitted on May 11, 2005, to the Court during said public hearing, in which they expressed their agreement on keeping the provisional measures in full force, and further agreed to “remit to the consideration of the […] Inter-American Court […] the following set of measures so that the Court could evaluate the possibility of specifying the content of the Order dated November 22, 2004, with a view to safeguarding the life and physical integrity of the beneficiaries to said order:” 1. Regarding the penitentiary staff, to adopt measures: a. b. c. d. e. In the short-term, to increase the number of penitentiary staff to safeguard the security of the institutions,; To introduce changes in the surveillance pattern in a manner such that it assures adequate control and the actual presence of personnel in the cellblocks; In the mid-term, to carry out a purge of the penitentiary corps in order to assure adequate service provision; As a permanent measure, to assure the recruitment and continuous training of penitentiary staff; and to request that the authorities of the General Security Council of the Province report the outcome of investigations on the individuals directly responsible for

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