18 overcrowding and treatment, education, work, and psychiatric, medical, social and spiritual care." The first of these rulings established, inter alia, TO CALL UPON the director of Penitentiary Complex No. III (Almafuerte) in Cacheuta to immediately take the steps, issue the orders, and/or execute the proceedings necessary for the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment suffered by the inmates housed in SECTORS 1 and 2 of the Complex to cease […; to] ensure the inmates their right to petition, having the duty to establish an effective and rapid means of attending to the different briefs and/or correspondence sent, without prior restraint, to judicial and/or administrative authorities […;] to take the steps toward providing and/or allowing the entry of radio and/or television devices that ensure the right to information enjoyed by the inmates […;] within the period of [5 days], to take steps toward providing some means of telephonic communication to the inmates housed in Complex III in order to ensure the inmates their right to communicate […] TO RECOMMEND that the director of Penitentiary Complex No. III (Almafuerte) of Cacheuta reorganize the activities of the inmates housed in SECTORS I and II of the complex in such a way as to permit them to enjoy more recreation and thereby decrease the number of hours under lockdown to the extent permitted by the safety conditions of the facility. b) In a ruling dated February 13, 2007, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation found, inter alia, that "[…] as custodian of constitutional guarantees and attending to the lack of results obtained by the order issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, it finds itself with the unavoidable obligation to call upon the National State to, within 20 days, take those measures necessary to put an end to the situation being faced in the prison units of the province of Mendoza and to take the measures hereinafter indicated in the operative part of this judgment […]" and ruled: II.-To instruct the Supreme Court of Justice of the Province of Mendoza and provincial tribunals of all levels, within their corresponding jurisdictions and by order of the Supreme Court and considering the urgency of the case, to put an end to all eventual situations of aggravation of detention that amount to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or any other situation possibly leading to international responsibility of the Federal State; III.-To order the National Executive Branch to report to the Tribunal every 20 days on the measures adopted to improve the situation of those detained. Notify […] the National Executive Branch- the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights-; and the Governor of the Province of Mendoza of this order […] c) in an Order dated February 14, 2007, the Supreme Court of Mendoza ruled: 1. To notify and report on the contents of the resolution [of the CSJN dated February 13, 2007], to all the Tribunals of the Province of Mendoza for their compliance and in order to cease any eventual situation of aggravation of detention that would violate Article 18 of the National Constitution; 2. To order an extraordinary visit to the women's prison facilities, Boulogne Sur Mer, and Gustavo André to be led by the magistrates of this Tribunal to all the penitentiary units in the Province; 3. To order the immediate confirmation of the conditions of the prison facilities via the Sentence Execution Judges; 4. To call [a] hearing for February 19, [2007,] in order to call the governor of the province of Mendoza before this Tribunal to report on the degree of compliance with the precautionary measures [sic] ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and 5. To ask the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to call on the National Executive Branch to immediately and urgently relocate the federal inmates housed in the Provincial Penitentiary. d) in an administrative order issued on March 1, 2007, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Province of Mendoza, "examining the contents of the ruling handed down by

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