11 control of the Confinement Center. The State must provide detailed information about how will the selection of the new guards to be sent to La Pica be made or how has it been made. By January 26, 2006, the guards mentioned by the State in its report of January 23, 2006 (supra Having Seen clause No. 14(c)) had not been transferred yet to La Pica Confinement Center; d) an effective improvement of the guards’ capacity to guarantee La Pica internal safety would consist in providing them with adequate physical and safety conditions that would allow them to perform their duties efficiently; e) on January 20 the Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones (Venezuelan Prison Watch) visited La Pica Confinement Center. At that time, the Director of the Center stated that the Confinement Center was under the control of the inmates, and that they authorized or allowed the Director to enter the places where they are lodged; f) on January 26, 2006, upon the request of the Ministerio del Interior y Justicia (Ministry of Home Affairs and Justice), Mr. Humberto Prado taught a first training course to the guards of the Centro Penitenciario Región Capital Yare (Penitentiary Center of the Region Capital Yare), but not to those of La Pica Confinement Center; g) during the search made by the State in La Pica Confinement Center, on January 26, 2006, several arms, bullets, grenades and drugs were found; h) the living conditions of La Pica inmates are, per se, an extremely serious and urgent situation that poses an imminent threat of irreparable harm to the life and personal integrity of inmates. Said conditions demand the extension of the provisional measures the Court may order for the purpose of assuring that the State may effectively and urgently adopt all measures necessary to solve such problem; i) in its report of January 23, 2006 (supra Having Seen clause No. 14), the State did not refer to any measure adopted in order to guarantee the visit of children to their parents held in jail; j) it is of the utmost importance to avoid overcrowding in jails, to classify and segregate detainees according to their particular characteristics, to give them a dignified treatment and to assure them adequate sanitary conditions; k) the State must inform on the current distribution of inmates in the cells, specifying the actual capacity of each cell –pursuant to international standards- and the number of inmates currently lodged in each cell; l) they recognized the State’s willingness to make the representatives participate in the meetings of the Comisión Presidencial para Atender la Emergencia Carcelaria (Presidential Committee for Jail Emergency) as well as the significance of the express authorization the State gave them to visit the Confinement Center and the prompt action of the State to call a meeting to be held by the State and the representatives on January 18, 2006, but they consider that the State has not assured them an adequate participation in the planning and implementation of the effective measures addressed to

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