8 Almafuerte-) in Cacheuta to reorganize the activities of the inmates confined in SECTORS I and 2 of that Complex so that they are allowed to have more breaks and consequently reduce the number of hours they remain confined, provided the Institution security allows so. 12. That as informed by the State, after this decision of the Criminal Enforcement Court, the Director of the III Penitentiary Complex issued several memos ordering a series of measures and guidelines aimed to correct the situations of fact which gave rise to the request for broadening the provisionary measures (supra Considering Clause No. 9). 13. That before the request to broaden the provisional measures ordered by this Court, according to information added to the case file, the domestic courts including the Argentinean Supreme Court-, passed several judgments regarding the facts that originated them and which order the protection of the people deprived of liberty in the Province of Mendoza in general. This Presidency considers the attention of the domestic courts to the above described situation to be of utmost importance and in that sense and it enhances the following decisions: a) in a judgment of February 13, 2007, the National Supreme Court considered, inter alia, that “[…] as custodian of the constitutional safeguards and due to the lack of results regarding the order issued by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights, it sees itself in the inevitable obligation to order the National State to adopt the measures to put an end to the situation of the penitentiary facilities of the Province of Mendoza within twenty days, and to take the measures that shall be stated in the operative part of this judgment […]” and it decided: “I.- To order the National State to adopt the necessary measures to put an end to the situation of the penitentiary facilities of the Province of Mendoza within twenty days; II.- To order the Supreme Court of Mendoza as well as the courts of all instances of that province, in their respective jurisdictions and by decision of this Supreme Court -considering the urgency of the case-, to cause any eventual aggravation of a detention situation which may imply cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or any other kind of treatment susceptible of entailing the international liability of Federal State, to come to an end; III.- To order that every twenty days the National Executive Power informs the Court on the measures it adopts to improve the situation of the detainees. Serve notice upon […] the National Executive Power – Ministry of Justice and Human Rights-; and the governor of the Province of Mendoza […]” b) in a Decision of February 14, 2007, the Supreme Court of Mendoza ruled: 1. To serve notice and inform on the content of the decision [of the National Supreme Court of February 13, 2007], to all the Courts of the Province of Mendoza for its fulfillment and to cause any eventual aggravation of the detention conditions which may imply a violation of Article 18 of the National Constitution to come to an end; 2. To order an extraordinary visit to female penitentiaries Boulogne Sur Mer and Gustavo André, which shall be conducted by the Justices of this Court to all the penitentiary facilities of the Province; 3. To order the immediate verification of the conditions in the penitentiary institutions through Criminal Enforcement Judges; 4. To set [a] hearing for February 19 [2007] so that the Governor of the Province of Mendoza appears before this Court to inform on the degree of fulfillment of the provisional measures [sic] set by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and to request the National Supreme Court to subpoena the National Executive Power so that it immediately proceeds to relocate the federal inmates institutionalized in the Provincial Penitentiary.

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