3 bowels in a hole shared with the other inmates. The external part of the showers is destroyed and prison authorities do not provide soap for the inmates. Moreover, the sewage system has collapsed and there is no treated water pumping; iii) as inmate workers are lodged in an improvised Appendixed area, they must sleep in the corridors; iv) the infirmary has been dismantled and lacks any kind of elements or materials. The name of a physician is included in the payroll, but he does not actually visit the Confinement Center. Consequently, the inmates that are injured or ill do not receive adequate and timely medical assistance, or they must wait to be sent to the Manuel Núñez Tovar Hospital, in the city of Maturín, to receive any health care assistance; and v) the lack of health care assistance also affects detained women. They do not have any gynaecological care and consequently, the majority of them –not only those who have delivered children- suffer from the Papiloma virus. k) during year 2005, inmates at La Pica Confinement Center went on several hunger strikes to protest for the lack of security within the premises of the confinement center and for the deplorable detention conditions inmates were subject to, for the mistreatment and/or the delays in proceedings and unexpected transfers; l) after a hunger strike made in the month of May, 2005, where 39 children were kept with the inmates, the Tribunal Superior de Menores (Superior Juvenile Court) of the state of Monagas prohibited the entry of children to the Confinement Center as long as an appropriate place were constructed and assigned for children visitors, in order to assure that children would not be kept locked during riots or hunger strikes. Thus, since May 2005, those parents who are detained in La Pica Confinement Center cannot see their children; m) female visitors of the Confinement Center have to undergo vaginal searches and they are obliged to take off their clothes and hop and jump while squatting before being authorized to enter the corresponding cellblock; n) by the end of year 2005, 501 inmates were housed at La Pica Confinement Center, 363 of which were indicted and 138 have already been sentenced; but there was not adequate separation between these two groups of inmates; o) delegates of the executive, legislative and judicial power visited the Confinement Center during the last months of year 2005 but they did not take any efficient measure to prevent any deaths and further problems related to detention conditions; p) through Executive Order N° 3,265 of November 23, 2004, the President of the Republic created the Presidential Committee to handle the Jail Emergency, whose powers and duties would be the following: