5 “170 people being held as hostages in that prison” are not inmates; and iii) the measures taken to correct the current inmate uprising. 2. To reiterate to the State and to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights its request that the necessary steps be taken to coordinate and oversee compliance with the provisional measures ordered by the Court, in accordance with operative paragraph three of the August 29, 2002 Order. Also, the State and the Inter-American Commission are to report the results of the measures taken. 3. To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the petitioners to submit their comments on the respondent State’s report within 10 days of receiving it. 4. To summon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the petitioners and the State to a public hearing, which will be held at the seat of the Court on June 28, 2004, starting at 3:30 p.m., to hear their arguments on compliance with the provisional measures ordered in the instant case. 17. The May 4, 2004 brief and its attachments, wherein the State filed its sixth report on compliance with the provisional measures that the Court required of it in its previous Order. Summarizing, in that report the State informed the Court that: a) concerning the uprising that occurred in April 2004, routine at the prison was disrupted when on April 16, 2004 two inmates were “murdered by rivals”; in the wake of those two killings, a prison uprising broke out on Sunday April 18, 2004, and relatives “refused to leave the prison.” The victims were identified as Jailson Quintino de Lima and Israel Márcio Soares, who were serving their sentences in separate cells. Concerning the measures taken in response to the uprising, the State reported that by the time it received notification of the Court’s April 22, 2004 Order, it had already taken all the measures necessary to bring the uprising to an end. During the riot, some 160 prisoners threatened with death were removed from the “safe” area and taken to an administrative area beyond reach of the rioting inmates, so as to protect their lives and physical safety. All the deaths that happened in the prison during the riot were caused by blows inflicted by “rivals” wielding “hand-made weapons.” The riot ended on April 22, 2004, and at around 4:00 p.m. a negotiations document was drawn up and signed by the “new cabinet” and a commission composed of five inmates and three visitors (the State attached a copy of this document). At 8:00 p.m. on April 22, 2004, all visitors were allowed to leave. As agreed in the negotiations document, that same night 30 inmates were transferred from the Urso Branco Prison to Porto Velho’s Eighth Police Precinct. The following day the Director of the National Prisons Department (DEPEN) went to the prison to continue with verification of the damage caused and with the military police investigation. The State also supplied a list, prepared by the Office of the Superintendent for Prison Affairs of the State of Rondônia, of the inmates who died as a result of the riot;5 b) it recognized the seriousness of the situation at the Urso Branco Prison and was taking all measures to ensure the rights of the inmates; c) as for other measures taken, an agreement was signed between the Federal Union and the State of Rondônia to provide a social service to monitor performance of the inmates’ sentences, so as to reduce the overcrowding in 5 The list names 14 inmates who died, the cell where 12 of them were housed, and the date on which 9 of them died.

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