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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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