filed by agents, former officers, adolescents and family members, as well as
anonymous complaints. Moreover, it reported on the termination of the
employment relationship of officers involved in violent incidents;
f)
in 2010, the Corregedoría do Instituto de Atendimento Socioeducativo
do Espirito Santo [Correction’s Department of the Institute of Socioeducational Care of Espirito Santo] (hereinafter “the Correction’s
Department) investigated 46 cases, including two cases of assaults between
adolescents, five cases of assault against inmates by agents, three incidents
of fires, fights or sacking, 24 escapes, two escapes or escape attempts, two
riots or rebellions. In 2010, 40 officers were separated from their positions
at UNIS based on, inter alia, smuggling of illegal items, the provision of
inside escape assistance, and assault of adolescents;
g)
regarding the events of December 13, 2010, it sustained that three
inmates came out from an air duct, broke the padlocks to free other
adolescents, and threatened to initiate rebellion. The State acknowledged
that, “due to the shortage of the officers on duty, it was not possible to
design a safe restraint strategy.” The situation was controlled by the
intervention of the police, which resulted in a minor injury to one inmate.
The corresponding administrative procedure to investigate the facts was
initiated;
h)
regarding the facts of January 31, 2011, the State clarified that the
negotiation attempts of the State were unsuccessful and that the
intervention [of the military police] to control the inmates was necessary;
once the procedures were completed, the four injured minors were taken for
a forensic examination. The corresponding administrative procedure to
investigate the facts was initiated;
i)
regarding the sick minor, regarding whom the inmates threatened to
start a rebellion on February 1, 2011, if he did not receive medical care, the
State informed that, after the intervention of the member of “Ministry of the
Minor,” medical care was provided to the inmate;
j)
regarding the existence of “floating” adolescents, the State sustained
that this situation has not been proven;
k)
on February 9, 2011, once again, the Public Prosecutor’s Office
requested the inclusion of the UNIS in the Full Justice Project of the National
Council of Justice, aimed at accompanying the cases in which there is a wellfounded doubt about the reasonable duration of the proceeding and its
effectiveness. The original “request” was proposed in 2001 and had not been
decided until 2011;
l)
in the months of December 2010 and February 2011, 19 inmates
were transferred to the Unidad de Atención Socioeducativa [SocioEducational Care Facility] of Linhares and six of them to the Vila Velha
Facility;
m)
regarding the access of the petitioners to the facility, it sustained that
such access has never been denied, but that it has been granted upon a
request and identification of the visitors prior to visitation, and
n)
the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Judiciary, and the Secretary of
Justice of the state of Espirito Santo have conducted meetings in order to
deactivate wings A and B of the UNIS and reduce the number of inmates in
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