7 d) several measures are currently being adopted to solve, as prompt as possible, any deficiency in the quantity and training of jail personnel; e) several searches and inspections Confinement Center during year 2005; have been conducted in the f) measures have been adopted to take care of the health and food of inmates; g) several investments were made to improve the infrastructure of the Confinement Center; h) two officers reporting to the Dirección General de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights General Board) have been assigned to work in each penitentiary of the country on an ongoing and daily basis; i) On January 2005, section 493 of the Organic Code of Criminal Procedure was overruled; j) the acts of violence that took place in the Confinement Center are being investigated; and k) in the light of the aforementioned, the State requested the Court to take into account the work that is under progress through the process of humanization of the penitentiary system implemented by the Ministerio del Interior y Justicia (Ministry of Home Affairs and Justice), in order to analyze this matter from an objective and equitable standpoint and, consequently, to consider the possibility of dismissing the request for provisional measures and thereupon, to allow the State to submit additional information on the events denounced. 9. The communication sent by the State on January 6, 2006, whereby it informed that it would send a copy of an official letter sent by the government officer to the Dirección de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Board) of the Ministerio del Interior y Justicia (Ministry of Home Affairs and Justice) whereby she had requested certain information from said entity, and whereby it also insisted on requesting the Court to abstain from deciding on the provisional measures requested until the State had sent the results of said request for information. 10. The notice sent by the Secretariat on January 6, 2006, whereby, following the President’s instructions, it granted the State a period of time extending to January 11, 2006, to submit the information referred to in the State’s communication of January 6, 2006. 11. The communication sent by the State on January 12, 2006, whereby the Ministerio del Interior y Justicia (Ministry of Home Affairs and Justice of Venezuela) informed on “the situation of the human rights of the detainees at the Monagas Judicial Confinement Center ‘La Pica’,” pointing out, inter alia, that: a) a “disarmament plan” has been developed with the purpose of guaranteeing the right to life within the Confinement Center;