place while they were in custody on January 25, 2013, with a high cost in human life,
which reveal the persistence of the situation of extreme gravity and urgency. In addition,
the Court has verified that the level of overcrowding has increased and that the deficient
internal control and security conditions subsist, as well as the continuing entry into and
possession of weapons within the prison.
15.
In the circumstances of this matter, and while the State improves the detention
conditions of the inmates, the Court must require, for the effects of these provisional
measures, that the State eliminate, specifically, the risk of violent death and of attacks
on personal integrity. To this end, the measures adopted must include those aimed
directly at protecting the rights to life and integrity of the beneficiaries, in the context of
both the relations among the inmates themselves and with the State agents, as well as
those designed to eliminate these risks, particularly in relation to the deficient internal
control and security conditions of the Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental
Region.
16.
Lastly, the Court considers it essential that the State present a supplementary
report, which should contain: (a) the names of the beneficiaries who were injured, the
medical attention provided, and the conditions and place where they are at the present
time; (b) the names of the beneficiaries who are deceased, and (c) the names of the
beneficiaries who were transferred to other penitentiary centers, indicating the precise
place to which they were transferred and whether the transfer was temporary or
definitive. The Court emphasizes that it is necessary to guarantee the access of the
representatives to the prisons covered by measures of protection, as well as the
constructive participation of the State and of the representatives in the implementation
of these provisional measures.
17.
Based on all the above, it is in order to maintain the provisional measures in force
and, consequently, the State has the obligation to protect the life and integrity of all the
persons who are within the Penitentiary Center of the Central Occidental Region, of the
persons who may enter the prison in the future as inmates, and of those who work there,
as well as of those who enter the premises as visitors.
18.
In conclusion, it is recalled that the measures remain in force that were adopted
in the Matter of the Monagas Judicial Detention Center (“La Pica”); the Penitentiary
Center of the Capital Region Yare I and Yare II (Yare Prison); the Penitentiary Center of
the Central Occidental Region (Uribana Prison); the Capital Detention Center El Rodeo I
and El Rodeo II; the Penitentiary Center de Aragua “Tocorón Prison”; the Ciudad Bolívar
Judicial Detention Center “Vista Hermosa Prison,” and the Penitentiary Center of the
Andean Region, as well as with regard to Humberto Prado and Marianela Sánchez Ortiz,
her husband Hernán Antonio Bolívar, their son Anthony Alberto Bolívar Sánchez, and
their daughter Andrea Antonela Bolívar Sánchez, and that the joinder of the processing of
the provisional measures ordered in the Matters of certain Venezuelan Prisons subsists.
THEREFORE:
THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS,
In exercise of the attributes conferred on it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention
on Human Rights, and 27 and 31(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court,12
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Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Court approved at its eighty-fifth regular session held from
November 16 to 28, 2009.
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