10 ii. iii. iv. Emergency) so that it may present projects and working plans for the improvement of the penitentiary system; petitioners will be kept informed on the progress of the implementation of the measures adopted; a proposal was presented to organize a conference of nongovernmental entities to discuss matters related to the jail system deficiencies and the possible solutions; and non-governmental entities were authorized to visit the Confinement Center and make the corresponding recommendations and inform on the outcome of same. o) it presented charts showing the percentage of indictees and sentenced persons, and of detainees held in the confinement center but who belong to other judicial circuit; p) the Ministerio del Interior y Justicia (Ministry of Home Affairs and Justice) carried out a census with the purpose of addressing the possible delays in proceedings and of analyzing the alternative ways of penalty enforcement; and q) the State requested the Fiscal de Ejecución (Penalty Enforcement Prosecutor) of the Criminal Circuit of the State of Monagas a list describing the cases where acts of aggression and other wrongful acts committed in the Confinement Center are investigated, in order to learn about the stage of proceedings of said cases. 15. The Order of the Court of January 30, 2006, whereby the Court decided: 1. To call the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the representatives of the beneficiaries of these urgent measures and the State of Venezuela to a public hearing that would be held at the seat of the Court on February 9, 2006, as of 9.00 a.m., so that the Court might hear the arguments on the facts and circumstances that prompted the adoption of [said] Order. […] 16. The communication of the representatives of the beneficiaries (hereinafter, “the representatives”) of January 31, 2006, whereby they filed their objections to the government report dated January 23, 2006 (supra Having Seen clause No. 14), whereby they stated that: a) despite the general rules passed by the State, the existing conditions were extremely serious and gave rise to the violation of the right to life and personal integrity of La Pica inmates; b) on January 28, 2006, two days after the search conducted in the Confinement Center in compliance with the President’s Order, inmate Leonardo Marcano was wounded with a firearm by a cell mate. The following day, inmate Edixon José Coraspe died in a struggle between two groups of inmates that were fighting to gain the control of one of the cellblocks; c) since the population held in custody in La Pica amounts to 503 inmates, the number of guards to be assigned should be, at least, greater than the 30 guards proposed by the State in order to guarantee an efficient

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