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1.
[t]o require that the State maintain and extend the measures the State has
informed it is already adopting, as well as to adopt forthwith the supplementary
measures necessary to efficiently and definitively avoid violence within the Monagas
Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”), so that no inmate or person in the
Confinement Center is killed or treated inhumanely[;]
2.
[t]o request that the State, without prejudice to the measures for immediate
implementation ordered in the preceding operative paragraph, adopt those measures
necessary to: a) substantially reduce overcrowding in the Monagas Judicial
Confinement Center (“La Pica”), b) confiscate any weapons found in the possession of
inmates, c) separate the accused inmates from the convicted inmates, d) conform the
detention conditions in the Confinement Center to the applicable international
standards and e) provide any necessary health care to the inmates so that their right
to humane treatment is guaranteed. In this regard, the State shall, together with the
participation of the representatives of the beneficiaries of these provisional measures,
conduct a periodic inspection of detention conditions and of the physical and emotional
state of the detainees[;]
3.
[t]o require that the State carry out all actions necessary in order that the
protective measures in favor of the detainees at the Monagas Judicial Confinement
Center (“La Pica”) are planned and implemented with the participation of the
representatives of the beneficiaries of these measures, and so that, generally, the
representatives remain informed in regards to any progress in the adoption of such
measures[;]
4.
[t]o request that the State submit an up-to-date list to the Court of all persons
currently detained at the prison and, furthermore, precisely indicate the detainee’s
status of detention[, and]
5.
[t]o request that the State investigate the facts that call for the adoption of
provisional measures and, as the case may be, identify those responsible and impose
upon them the appropriate penalties, including administrative and disciplinary
sanctions.
[…]
3.
The communications presented by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (hereinafter
“the State” or “Venezuela”) on March 23, 2006; July 6, 2006; September 11, 2006;
February 14, 2007; March 28, 2007, and May 30, 2007, whereby the State informed, inter
alia, that:
a)
regarding the necessary measures to efficiently and definitively prevent
violence in the Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”):
i.
State officials have visited the Confinement Center and studied present
and future measures to prevent violence in La Pica. They agreed to the
immediate adjustment and designation of guards and the use of metal
detectors to prevent the entrance of weapons, firearms and homemade
weapons that can increase the violence;
ii.
since February 2006 new guards have been incorporated; by the end
of March 2007 the number of guards for internal custody had increased to 22,
and in May 2007 there were 18 guards;
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