6. The communication of May 22, 2014, wherein the Inter-American Commission reported on new alleged facts of violence that occurred in the months of March and May 2014, in the prison. 7. The alleged facts that form the basis of the provisional measures filed by the Inter-American Commission, namely: a) The Commission adopted precautionary measures in this matter on August 4, 2011, after receiving information, among others, about the 55 violent deaths that took place in said prison as of 2008, the alleged acts of torture and prison riots that took place in July 2011, which resulted in 16 injured inmates. This information was received by the Commission between June and July 2011, provided by the organizations Justiça Global, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University, Pastoral Carcerária de Pernambuco, Serviço Ecumênico de Militância nas Prisões, and Pastoral Carcerária Nacional; b) The precautionary measures where extended on October 8, 2012, in order to also protect “the staff and visitors at the prison” in light of the information provided regarding the occurrence of prison riots and acts of violence that have resulted in one death and two injured persons, even during visiting hours; c) As background information, the Commission filed information on the various facts presented below: 1. since January 2013, six inmates have died violently on January 19, June 3, June 19, October 15, December 3, 2013, and February 1, 2014; 2. on September 14, 2013, and on March 28, 2014, the petitioners reported over 50 complaints of violence (30 complaints on September 14, 2013, 20 complaints between said dates and February 18, 2014, and four complaints on March 28, 2014) to the detriment of those persons deprived of liberty that allegedly include: beatings, electric shock, use of dogs to bite and/or cause injury, death threats, attempted murder with knives and daggers, indiscriminate use of rubber bullets and tear gas by prison guards, ‘chaveiros,’ and other inmates, and other domestic and sexual violence against inmates, individually and collectively; 3. the use of ‘chaveiros’ with disciplinary authority and security control functions, backed by State officials. The ‘chaveiros’ would have had control over various cells and cellblocks, and even had the keys to these. As a result of the abovementioned, the ‘chaveiros’ restricted some inmates, such as gays, bisexuals and transsexuals, from freely moving through the halls of the prison; 4. the alleged attacks against visitors by prison staff; 5. the alleged taking of prison officers as hostages by at least 35 inmates on January 26, 2013. The petitioners reported that an officer was injured by a firearm; 6. between January and October 2013, 55 disturbances or riots occurred in which prison staff used firearms and grenades. A report of the Executive Secretariat of Resocialization certified the use of such weapons; 2