40 outside the prison center and that, based on the respective findings, he is provided with the necessary care and medication; (ii) To feed prisoners adequately, in accordance with acceptable standards of nutrition and hygiene; (iii) To expand the visiting regime for prisoners to ensure that their family and relatives can have real and effective physical contact with them, eliminating undue restrictions; (iv) The prison system should ensure that the ties of affection between prisoners and their next of kin can be maintained by means of different types of contact. In the specific case of Mr. Raxcacó Reyes, he should be authorized to receive conjugal visits and to be in telephone communication with his wife; (v) To provide the conditions to ensure that professional technical assistance visits can be carried out in adequate physical spaces, and for the time and with the privacy necessary; (vi) To provide appropriate conditions for physical exercise and maintenance, adequate hours of sunlight, and access to adequate ventilation and air; (vii) To implement, provide and support public or private initiatives for rehabilitation, training, recreation, spiritual development, and access to work; (viii) To promulgate a law that regulates the prison system, incorporating the rights and obligations of prisoners, and guaranteeing them the right to serve their prison sentences in a way that is compatible with the dignity of the human being; and (ix) To adapt its laws in order to establish that anyone sentenced to a term of imprisonment can reduce it by performing educational and work activities. (e) To acknowledge publicly that it incurred international responsibility when it reformed Article 201 of the Penal Code and revoked Decree No. 159 with regard to pardon; it should also acknowledge that being on death row implies cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, which is aggravated by the abysmal prison conditions in high and maximum security centers. The State’s highest authorities should attend the act during which international responsibility is acknowledged and it should be publicized through the principal national media; (f) To publish the judgment that the Court delivers in this case in the official gazette of Guatemala and in a newspaper with national circulation; (g) To abstain from executing anyone who has been condemned to death based on a law that is incompatible with the American Convention, such as Article 201 of the Penal Code. The State should also abstain from imposing

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