a) Immediately adopt all security and control measures necessary to preserve the life and personal integrity of persons imprisoned at the Penitentiary of Mendoza and the Gustavo André Unit in Lavalle, as well as all persons entering the prisons, including employees and officers who work there; b) Adopt immediate measures to separate accused inmates from convicted inmates, in compliance with conditions required under the international standards applicable in this area; c) Conduct serious, complete and efficient investigations of the acts of violence occurring inside the Penitentiary of Mendoza and the Gustavo André Unit; identify the individuals responsible and impose the applicable punishments as a mechanism for preventing further acts of violence; d) Within a reasonable amount of time, submit for the consideration of the Court a plan for relocating the excess inmates held at the Penitentiary of Mendoza and the Gustavo André Unit, observing the maximum capacity and human resource requirements, but without creating a new problem of over-crowding at other prison facilities; and e) Within a reasonable amount of time, renovate the facilities at the Penitentiary of Mendoza and the Gustavo André Unit in order to provide the minimum conditions in terms of sanitation, space and dignity necessary to house the inmates. 25. Before the State submitted its observations on the request for information issued by the President of the Court, the IACHR received additional information on various acts of violence at the Penitentiary of Mendoza, among them the death of an inmate on October 30, 2004. The Commission provided this additional information to the Court. 26. On November 4, 2004, the State submitted its observations regarding the request for information from the President of the Court. The State indicated that it was in the process of taking a series of measures intended to comply with the Commission’s request for precautionary measures. In its submission, the State asserts that it does not question “the decision of the honorable Commission to ask that precautionary measures be adopted in favor of the inmates. However, it believes that, without prejudice to the overall situation that has become more critical in recent days, it seems clear that the current state of affairs does not allow for achieving all the anticipated results immediately but will, rather, require a complex action plan involving short-, medium- and long-term measures.” 27. On November 22, 2004, the Inter-American Court decided, in the relevant sections to: a) Request the State to immediately adopt the measures necessary to protect the life and personal integrity of all persons imprisoned at the Provincial Penitentiary of Mendoza and the Gustavo André Unit in Lavalle, as well as all persons inside these facilities. b) Request the State, as a protective measure appropriate to the situation, to investigate the facts that led to the adoption of these provisional measures, in order to identify those responsible and punish them accordingly. 28. At the request of the Argentine State and the representatives of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures, a delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights conducted a working visit to Argentina on December 13-17, 2004 and traveled to Mendoza Province to visit the prison facilities. 29. On April 6, 2005, the Commission submitted to the Court a brief of its observations regarding the second State report, including its observations on the working visit to the Penitentiary of Mendoza. The Commission informed the Court of its concerns regarding what it 4