20 psychological and moral integrity of inmates, as well as their right to life and to enjoy the minimum conditions of a dignified life. 20. That pursuant to its international duty to guarantee all people the enjoyment of human rights, the State must design and apply a penitentiary policy for preventing critical situations as those that prompt the issuance of these provisional measures.10 21. That the information provided by the parties (supra Considering clause No. 11), regarding the events occurred at La Pica Confinement Center, show, prima facie, a situation of the utmost seriousness and urgency as regards the rights to life and personal integrity of the inmates of said confinement center. 22. That the standard of prima facie assessment in a certain case and the application of presumptions due to the need for protection, have caused the Court order provisional measures in several cases. Therefore, this Court deems that it is necessary to protect said persons by means of provisional measures, in the light of the provisions set forth in the American Convention. THEREFORE: THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, in exercise of the authority conferred on it by Article 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure, DECIDES: 1. To request the State to maintain and extend the measures the State has informed it is adopting, as well as to adopt forthwith the supplementary measures necessary to efficiently and definitively avoid violence within the Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”), so that no inmate or any other person be killed or his/her personal integrity be affected within the confinement center. 2. To request the State that, without prejudice of the measures for immediate implementation ordered in the preceding operative clause, it may adopt the necessary measures: a) to significantly reduce overcrowding in the Monagas Judicial Confinement Center (“La Pica”) b) to seize any weapons found in the possession of inmates; c) to separate non-sentenced inmates from those who have already been sentenced; d) to adjust the detention conditions existing in the Confinement Center to the applicable international standards and e) to provide the necessary health care to inmates so that their personal integrity is guaranteed. In this sense, the State shall conduct a periodic surveillance of the detention conditions and physical and emotional condition of detainees, with the participation of the representatives of the beneficiaries of these provisional measures. 3. To request the State to carry out all actions necessary in order that the protective measures issued in favor of the detainees at the Monagas Judicial 10 Cf. Matter of Urso Branco Prison. Provisional Measures, supra note 5, Considering clause No. 19; and Matter of Urso Branco Prison. Provisional Measures, supra note 7, Considering clause No. 11.