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extend prisoners’ recreational time schedules, provide water to cell-blocks, repair
electric installations, refurnish gas connections, repair existing sanitary installations
and build new ones as necessary, and refurbish existing facilities and create new
lodging sectors.
17.
The submission of July 18, 2005, wherein the Inter-American Commission
filed its observations to the third and fourth State’s report, claiming inter alia that
although it valued the State’s willingness to comply with mid-term and long-term
measures, the Commission was worried about the current status of compliance with
said measures as there had been no concrete changes, and prison overcrowding,
absence of segregation of untried prisoners from convicted prisoners, lack of
adequate control and security as well as of basic services of hygiene and health care,
were still being an issue. Furthermore, the Commission remitted order of July 14,
2005, passed by the Jail Oversight Judge in and for the Province of Mendoza (supra,
Having Seen Clause No. 16).
18.
The submission of July 28, 2005, wherein the representatives forwarded
information about alleged actions of “repression carried out [by the State] during the
last riot”.
19.
The submission of August 5, 2005, wherein the representatives presented its
“comments on the observations made by the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights on July 18, 2005” (supra Having Seen Clause No. 17). In this regard, the
Secretariat understood that said submission corresponded with the representative’s
observation to the fourth State’s report.
20.
The submission of August 8, 2005, whereby the State requested an extension
for an additional ten days for the State to submit its fifth State’s report, which was
granted.
21.
The submission of August 12, 2005, wherein the Inter-American Commission
“express[ed] its profound concern […] for the status of implementation of provisional
measures […] and commitments undertaken by the State at the public hearing held
in Asunción, Paraguay, on May 11, 2005, as well as for a series of recent incidents
uncovering security pitfalls in both correctional institutions […].” In this regard, the
Commission made particular reference to two riots and to the alleged “deployment of
forces in order to quell these riots.”
22.
The submission of August 15, 2005, whereby the representatives reported on
“[…] a new questionable death of an inmate at the Mendoza Prison […] who had
allegedly electrocuted as he was handling a clandestine connection”.
23.
The submission of August 26, 2005, wherein Argentina presented its fifth
State’s report describing inter alia the measures adopted in order to protect the
penitentiary personnel; the procedures to compile a complete registry of inmate
data; to segregate prison population; to sequester weapons; to notify defense
attorneys of any sanction imposed on inmates; to make surveys on prison crowding
conditions; to improve sanitary, lighting, and the general condition of the
correctional institutions. Furthermore, the State claimed that it “is strongly
committed to complying with the provisional measures in full.” On September 23,
2005, Argentina submitted the original report along with its exhibits.
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