5 oscillations in the supply thereof.” Not all the inmates have mattresses, as they are not distributed regularly, and the quality of the existing ones is poor. Therefore, 300 mattresses were changed in the last months and other 400 are expected to be changed soon. Beneficiaries also receive health services regularly through physicians, nurses, technicians and nursing assistants, and through the attention provided by psychologists and social workers. However, the State “admit[ted] that health and social working services have not been provided in a satisfactory manner at the Penitentiary[, but] it has committed to improve [them]”; v) persons deprived of liberty receive free legal advise from the Defensoría Pública [Public Defender Service], which has other two counselors available for the inmates. Furthermore, in March, 2009, three interns were hired in order to cooperate with the work of the Defensoría Pública [Public Defender Service]. Until June, 2009, about 1,200 inquiries had been processed. The State pointed out that in the next 45 days it shall call three other interns to become members of the above mentioned team of legal assistance; vi) from September 22 to September 30, 2009 the Juzgado de Ejecución Penal [Court of Penal Enforcement] and the Ministerio Público [Office of the Public Prosecutor] of Rondônia organized a joint collective activity (in Portuguese, “mutirão”) in which they reviewed the situation of each detainee. Five judges, five prosecutors and five defense counselors participated in said activity, apart from the back-up assistants, and vii) The Ministry of Justice and State of Rondônia signed an agreement to implement several social integration projects, which include professional training activities. Rondônia is participating actively in the Plano Diretor do Sistema Penitenciário [Master Plan for the Penitentiary System] which seeks to restructure the present penitentiary model in order to guarantee a more humane and safer system, respectful of the persons deprived of liberty. In May, 2008, the Ministry of Justice launched an in loco monitoring of the goals of the penitentiary system Master Plan of the above mentioned state, emphasizing the actions adopted in order to promote the application of alternative punishments to the deprivation of liberty and the increase of the number of places available in prisons, among others. 8. That, with respect to the detention conditions at the Urso Branco Prison, the representatives, inter alia, pointed out that: i) a report of July 19, 2008, presented by the Juzgado de Ejecución Penal [Court of Penal Enforcement] stated that among the main problems of Urso Branco, overcrowding and inadequate physical structure were included, factors which difficult the control on the part of agents and ease mutinies and rebellions. In December, 2008, said Court ordered the partial closure of Urso Branco and prohibited the admission of new inmates, as there were already 1,241 persons deprived of liberty in a penitentiary with a capacity of 456 persons. Said order further granted the state of Rondônia a term of 11 months in order to decrease the Penitentiary population in accordance with its capacity; ii) as of August 15, 2009, Urso Branco housed 795 inmates. Furthermore, in a visit to the Prison in September, 2009, the representatives verified that over 200 detainees were in cells called “celões” (large cells), which, pursuant to