4 i. the doors accessing the cellblocks were welded because the locks had been destroyed. This decision was taken in order to avoid a massive runaway of inmates; ii. the military police acted on a few occasions in the Araraquara Penitentiary, and every intervention was conducted following the rules and professional standards, with absolute respect for human rights. Some interventions were made in order to provide assistance to ill persons and to transfer detainees, and some others were performed to keep order; b) regarding the second issue to be resolved (to allow access to medical staff, to relocate those who suffer from contagious diseases and to provide both in terms of quantity and quality, all the food, clothes and products for personal hygiene that may be necessary:) i. the penitentiary has doctors, two dentists, one nurse, one nursing technician and one nursing assistant who deliver the prescribed medicine to those inmates that need the same, on a daily basis, twice a day in the morning and at night; ii. after the riot, all ill inmates were transferred, and during the interventions of the military police, inmates were taken in order to be assisted by the health services; iii. the kitchen of the Penitentiary has not been damaged. Those inmates that have a semi-open detention regime, who had not taken part in the riot, prepare the food. Food is distributed in pots using as wheelbarrow; it is not thrown over prison walls as informed by the press. All inmates have their own plastic dish, spoon and jar; iv. clothes and products for personal hygiene are, and have always been, available; c) regarding the third issue to be resolved (to substantially reduce the overcrowding, to divide inmates into different categories and to allow inmates to be visited by their next of kin:) i. in May 2006 simultaneous riots occurred in different penitentiaries in the state of San Paulo, thus, many of those penitentiaries were left in a situation which led to a lack of necessary conditions to lodge prisoners. This prevented an immediate referral. ii. taking into account the impossibility of an immediate referral of all detainees, referrals are gradually being completed at a rate of one hundred inmates per week. Up to the date of submission of the report by the state, 434 detainees had been transferred to other penitentiaries; iii. those detainees that remain in the Araraquara Penitentiary have been redistributed into three sectors, to wit: Rayo I: 290 persons; Rayo II: 339 persons, and Rayo III: 307 persons. Furthermore, 34 people are isolated in the infirmary to be subject to criminological examinations; in the inclusion sector there are 3 persons; in the hospital center there is one person in transit, and in the semi-open detention regime sector there are 46 persons; iv. there are only 156 detainees that have not been convicted. They are going to be transferred to another cellblock; v. After the riot, those inmates that were suffering from medical conditions were transferred. Next, those who had not taken part in the riot were transferred. The inmates that had been involved in the riot would be