71
134.22
In general, the inmates’ court cases moved very slowly.93
134.23
Although the inmates had legal counsel,94 it was, in general,
unsatisfactory.95
134.24
The constant threats to the inmates’ personal safety, the overcrowding
and the Center’s grossly inadequate resources and infrastructure created a sense of
desperation in the inmates and made them more prone to violence.96 Rather than
being rehabilitated at the Center to successfully rejoin society, the inmates endured
93
Cf. expert testimony given by Mr. Luis Emilio Escobar Faella before the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights at the public hearing held on May 5, 2004; document titled “‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile
Correctional Facility, 1998 Report” (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the
application and comments on the pleadings and motions, appendix 13, volume I, folio 293); testimony
given by young Francisco Ramón Adorno in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate
documents, March 26, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American
Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, Commission’s appendix, folio 184).
94
Cf. Report on the February 11, 2000 fire, prepared by the Office of the Director General of
Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice and Labor (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 2, folios
88-93 et seq.); list of children and adolescents sent to adult prisons (file of appendixes to the application,
appendix 41, folio 515 et seq.); “‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Correctional Facility, 1998 Report” (file of
appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the application and comments on the
pleadings and motions, appendix 13, volume I, folio 284); February 22, 2001 report by the person
assigned to intervene in the ‘Panchito López’ Center, to the Deputy Minister of Justice concerning the
activities undertaken in the wake of the February 2001 fire (file of appendixes to the written brief of
pleadings and motions, appendix 21, volume I, folio 101); testimony given by young Francisco Ramón
Adorno in the presence of a person with legal authority to authenticate documents, March 26, 2004 (file of
written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’
representatives, Commission’s appendix, folio 184); testimony given by Ms. María Elizabeth Flores Negri
at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic of Paraguay, March 24, 2004 (file of written
statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American Commission and the alleged victims’
representatives, State’s appendix, folio 117); testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza
before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights at the public hearing held on May 3, 2004; September
17, 2001 report sent by the Office of the Director General of Human Rights of the Republic of Paraguay to
the Deputy Minister of Justice (file of appendixes to the application, appendix 30, folio 431).
95
Cf. March 2002 report that the Ministry of Justice and Labor sent to the Inter-American
Commission concerning the measures the State had taken to comply with the recommendations made by
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in its “Third Report on the Situation of Human Rights in
Paraguay” (file of appendixes to the brief of preliminary objections, answer to the application and
observations on the pleadings and motions, appendix 11, volume I, folio 241); testimony of Ana María de
Jesús Llanes Ferreira, magistrate, at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the Republic of
Paraguay, March 23, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the Inter-American
Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 85); testimony of Maureen
Antoinette Herman, an official with PROJOVEN, given at the Office of the Chief Government Notary of the
Republic of Paraguay, March 23, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the InterAmerican Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, State’s appendix, folio 92); testimony
given by young Clemente Luis Escobar González in the presence of a person with legal authority to
authenticate documents, March 30, 2004 (file of written statements supplied by the State, the InterAmerican Commission and the alleged victims’ representatives, representatives’ appendix, folio 235);
testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
at the public hearing held on May 3, 2004 .
96
Cf. testimony given by Mr. Juan Antonio de la Vega Elorza in the presence of a person with legal
authority to authenticate documents, December 10, 1993, which is in the file for the petition of generic
habeas corpus filed with the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth Rotation, on behalf of
the juveniles in the ‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Reeducation Institute (file of appendixes to the written
brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 1B, volume II, folio 371); April 12, 1994 report by psychiatric
experts Dr. Carlos Alberto Arestivo, Lic. Genaro Rivera Hunter and Lic. Mario Torres, which is in the file of
the petition of generic habeas corpus filed with the Civil and Commercial Law Court of First Instance, Ninth
Rotation, on behalf of the juveniles in the ‘Col. Panchito López’ Juvenile Reeducation Institute (file of
appendixes to the written brief of pleadings and motions, appendix 1D, volume II, folio 381).
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