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spokespersons from different prison populations in the country, the State, as
well as private and public decentralized institutions.
d)
regarding the submission of an up-to-date list of all persons currently
detained at the prison, precisely indicating the detainee’s status of detention:
i.
in March 2006 the State sent the Court up-to-date lists of the accused
and convicted prisoners which included the status of their detention; in
September 2006, January, March and May, 2007, the state submitted figures
concerning the total population at the Confinement Center, differentiating
between accused and convicted. On May 28, 2007, the population of the
Confinement Center included 507 detainees separated into the following
categories: 352 accused detainees (20 women), 107 convicted detainees (14
women), 11 foreigners, and 37 detainees in the work program, and
ii.
a registry containing
maintained and updated daily.
judicial
information
of
each
detainee
is
e)
with respect to the investigation of the facts that prompted the adoption of
the provisional measures, as well as the identification of those responsible and the
imposition of corresponding penalties, including administrative and disciplinary
sanctions:
i.
on February 22, 2006, based on the inspection carried out at the
Confinement Center by the General Direction of Human Rights of the Ministry
of the Interior and Justice, certain irregularities were acknowledged, such as
inadequate nutritional management, for which the Director, the Manager and
the Administrative Clerk of the Confinement Center were suspended;
ii.
the Confinement Center is permanently served by corresponding
offices of the public prosecutor which have performed several proceedings at
the Confinement Center, such as conducting regular and surprise visits and
providing riot and search assistance, and
iii.
violence incidents within the Confinement Center instigated criminal
investigations concerning detainees, personnel and security guards, which are
still in progress.
4)
The communications presented by the representatives of the beneficiaries on
February 17, 2006; May 18, 2006; August 30, 2006; November 29, 2006; March 21, 2007,
and May 17, 2007, whereby the representatives stated, inter alia, that:
a)
regarding the necessary measures to efficiently and definitively prevent
violence in the Detention Center of Monagas (“La Pica”):
i.
nearly 3 years after having declared a prison crisis in Venezuela, the
grave situation of violence and insecurity persists in the detention center and
there have been no advances made, which implies that the State has not
adopted the necessary and adequate measures to control and overcome the
problem;
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