12. The communication of April 5, 2011, and its attachments, in which the InterAmerican Commission indicated that one of the representatives had “stated that the violence continued in the Mendoza prison.” 13. The brief of April 11, 2011, and its attachments, in which the Inter-American Commission provided information on an alleged confrontation between inmates and about recent events in the San Felipe Unit involving Andrés Yacante and Matías Marcel Tello Sánchez, whose protection had been requested. 14. The communication of April 12, 2011, in which the Commission requested an extension for the presentation of its observations on the State’s brief of March 21, 2011, as well as the Secretariat’s note of April 13, 2011, granting the requested extension until April 25, 2011. 15. The brief of April 25, 2011, in which the Commission forwarded its observations on the State’s report. 16. The Secretariat’s note of May 3, 2010, advising that the Commission’s request together with the observations of the State and of the Commission would be submitted to the Court’s consideration. In addition, in view of the alleged facts described in the Commission’s request and the State’s observations, the latter was reminded of its obligation to adopt any mechanisms it considered effective to ensure to all persons subject to its jurisdiction the free and full exercise of their rights, particularly the rights to life and to personal integrity, in keeping with the general obligations of the States Parties to the American Convention, embodied in Article 1(1) thereof. 17. The brief of May 3, 2011, in which the State presented observations on the information provided by the Commission on April 5 and 11, 2011. 18. The Secretariat’s note of May 25, 2011, in which, on the instructions of the Court meeting in plenary for its forty-third special session, held in Panama City, the State and the Inter-American Commission were requested to present by June 8, 2011, at the latest, updated information on the situation of the persons deprived of liberty in the Mendoza Provincial Prison, specifically in the San Felipe and Boulogne Sur Mer Units, and particularly of William Vargas García, Walter Fabián Correa, Andrés Yacante and Matías Marcelo Tello Sánchez. In addition, they were asked to refer to any progress made in the criminal, administrative and any other type of investigations underway into the events described, as well as any other information they might consider relevant in this regard. 19. The brief of June 1, 2011, with which the State forwarded a “copy of the law providing for the creation of the mechanism known as the Provincial Commission for the Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.” 20. The briefs of June 7 and 8, 2011, with which the State and the Commission, respectively, forwarded documentation and information in response to the request contained in the Secretariat’s note of May 25, 2011. 3