60 defined their situation and decided whether to deport them or not.211 Currently, Panama has two shelters for migrants, which are located in the capital city,212 therefore individuals arrested in border areas, either irregular migrants or persons seeking international protection, are sent to penitentiary centers of the provinces or police stations until their transfer to the shelters of the National Immigration Services in the Panama City.213 200. Hence, when Mr. Vélez Loor was arrested in the province of Darién, he was transferred together with four other foreigners214 to La Palma Public Prison215 (supra para. 93), which is the main confinement center of the area.216 According to the testimony rendered by Mr. Vélez Loor regarding his imprisonment at La Palma, there were also “Peruvian detainees and their wives, and Colombian detainees [...] with their children, pregnant women, [and] a pregnant Peruvian adolescent.”217 There were three cellblocks for men in the premises: the big cellblock, the preventive cellblock and the cuadra cellblock, which were old warehouses of goods, without natural and artificial ventilation.218 Furthermore, there was a room for confined women, without security and a physical divide.219 There, Mr. Vélez Loor was imprisoned in a cellblock where the individuals who are on good behavior and elder individuals were confined,220 near a fuel tank. 221 On these premises, he was held together with people arrested for crimes.222 211 Cf. Statement rendered by María Cristina González at the public hearing held before the InterAmerican Court on August 25, 2010. 212 Cf. Statement rendered by María Cristina González at the public hearing held before the InterAmerican Court on August 25, 2010. 213 Cf. Affidavit rendered by Mrs. Sharon Irasema Diaz Rodriguez, supra note 135, folio 3667, and Note DDP-RP-DRI No. 24-2010, supra note 135. 214 Cf. Note N° 061 Judicial Section issued by the Chief of the First Battalion of Support and Service of La Palma Public Prison addressed to the Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic on September 2, 2009 (case file of the evidence, volume VI, annex 1 of the answer to the application, folio 2400), and Note No. 163-02 Regional Metetí issued by the Regional Supervisor of Migration of Metetí addressed to the Chief of the Police Zone of Darién on November 12, 2002 (case file of the evidence, tome VI, annex 1 to the response to the application, folio 2401). 215 Cf. Particulars Form, La Palma Public Prison, Darien, Penitentiary Prison, Ministry of Interior and Justice, November 12, 2002 (case file of the evidence, volume III, annex 11 of the application, folio 1219) and case file of Mr. Jesus Tranquilino Vélez Loor in the National Prison System (case file of the evidence, volume VI, annex 3 of the response to the application, folios 2624 and 2625). 216 Cf. Information on the Public Jail of La Palma available at the webfolio of the General Office of Penitentiary Systems (case file of the evidence, volume IV, annex 8 of the autonomous brief of pleadings, motions and evidence, folio 1581). 217 Statement rendered by Jesús Tranquilino Vélez Loor at the public hearing held before the InterAmerican Court on August 25, 2010. 218 Cf. Statement of Mrs. Sharon Irasema Díaz Rodríguez, supra note 135, folios 3664 to 3665, and Special Report of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Panama on the Situation of the Jails in the Interior of the Country on April 12, 2005 (case file of the evidence, tome VIII, annex 42 to the response to the application, folio 3438). 219 Statement rendered by Sharon Irasema Díaz Rodríguez, supra note 135, folios 3664 to 3665, and Special Report of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Panama, supra note 218. 220 Cf. Note No. 208-DGSP.DAL, supra note 69. 221 Cf. Note No. 208-DGSP.DAL, supra note 69, and Statement rendered by Leoncio Raúl Ochoa Tapia, supra note 160, folio 3657. 222 Statement rendered by Jesus Tranquilino Vélez Loor at the public hearing held before the InterAmerican Court on August 25, 2010, and Statement rendered by Mr. Leoncio Raul Ochoa Tapia, supra note 160, folio 3657. Witness Gonzalez indicated that people arrested under the order of the Migration Office were not held in the same area at La Palma than the individuals arrested for criminal or police reasons. Cf. Statement rendered by Carlos Benigno González Gómez, supra note 122, folio 3789.