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ii.
iii.
iv.
Emergency) so that it may present projects and working plans for
the improvement of the penitentiary system;
petitioners will be kept informed on the progress of the
implementation of the measures adopted;
a proposal was presented to organize a conference of nongovernmental entities to discuss matters related to the jail
system deficiencies and the possible solutions; and
non-governmental entities were authorized to visit the
Confinement
Center
and
make
the
corresponding
recommendations and inform on the outcome of same.
o)
it presented charts showing the percentage of indictees and sentenced
persons, and of detainees held in the confinement center but who belong to
other judicial circuit;
p)
the Ministerio del Interior y Justicia (Ministry of Home Affairs and
Justice) carried out a census with the purpose of addressing the possible
delays in proceedings and of analyzing the alternative ways of penalty
enforcement; and
q)
the State requested the Fiscal de Ejecución (Penalty Enforcement
Prosecutor) of the Criminal Circuit of the State of Monagas a list describing the
cases where acts of aggression and other wrongful acts committed in the
Confinement Center are investigated, in order to learn about the stage of
proceedings of said cases.
15.
The Order of the Court of January 30, 2006, whereby the Court decided:
1.
To call the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the representatives of
the beneficiaries of these urgent measures and the State of Venezuela to a public
hearing that would be held at the seat of the Court on February 9, 2006, as of 9.00
a.m., so that the Court might hear the arguments on the facts and circumstances that
prompted the adoption of [said] Order.
[…]
16.
The communication of the representatives of the beneficiaries (hereinafter,
“the representatives”) of January 31, 2006, whereby they filed their objections to the
government report dated January 23, 2006 (supra Having Seen clause No. 14),
whereby they stated that:
a)
despite the general rules passed by the State, the existing conditions
were extremely serious and gave rise to the violation of the right to life and
personal integrity of La Pica inmates;
b)
on January 28, 2006, two days after the search conducted in the
Confinement Center in compliance with the President’s Order, inmate
Leonardo Marcano was wounded with a firearm by a cell mate. The following
day, inmate Edixon José Coraspe died in a struggle between two groups of
inmates that were fighting to gain the control of one of the cellblocks;
c)
since the population held in custody in La Pica amounts to 503
inmates, the number of guards to be assigned should be, at least, greater
than the 30 guards proposed by the State in order to guarantee an efficient
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