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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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