A/HRC/13/39/Add.2 outside. Another time he was held in isolation for 11 days. He was afraid because he was not allowed outside, and he did not know how long he would have to stay there. He was placed in the facility by a judge because of his psychiatric problems. The medical personnel informed the Special Rapporteur that he did not spend more than two days at a time in the small cell (calabozo). 57. Dalton Eduardo Pereira Conti, aged 23, suffered from epilepsy, and was convicted of robbery. He had been at the hospital for four months. He said that the food was of good quality. He reported that fighting among patients was punished with detention in the small cells (calabozos) for 4 to 15 days. He said that he had been educated in the streets. He had a friend in one of the halls, with whom he drank tea and played cards. He added that his mother had ill-treated him and did not give him any money, and that he had gone to a school for the disabled for some time. 58. Gustavo Martinez, aged 53, had been deprived of liberty by judicial order and had been detained in room 11B for eight days. He reported that he suffered because of his detention and lack of activity and would need to see a psychologist in order to improve his state of health. He noted that his family visited him regularly, but he would not let his children visit him in this institution. Furthermore, he complained about the quality of the food. He made no complaints of ill-treatment. 59. Robert Adrian Diaz, aged 29, crack consumer, had been detained by judicial order for four months in room 11B. He reported that the small cells (calabozos) were used to separate patients who had conflicts or to tranquilize patients, but sometimes also as a punishment for up to 20 days. Libertad Penitentiary, Montevideo Visited on 25 March 2009 General information 60. The Libertad Penitentiary, a symbol of torture and inhumanity during the time of the dictatorship, is still functioning today with the same cynical associations. The interim director, Mayor Leonardo Rafael Condé Boccardi, explained that Libertad was the harshest of all prisons in the penitentiary system, with specific security measures. Detainees were transferred to Libertad from other prisons to this maximum security prison because they were considered to be dangerous, recidivists, or had been involved in escapes and riots. 61. There was absolutely no separation between the 835 pretrial detainees and the 341 convicted prisoners. In the last five months, the prison population had risen from 580 to 1,200. For every detainee leaving, new detainees arrived. Three hundred staff worked in the prison and 20 of them were women. 62. More than 20 prisoners died during the last three years. Every case of death was reportedly investigated by a forensic expert. There were reportedly no suicides. 63. The prison had four different types of detention regimes: (a) “Las Latas” are metal containers built in 2003 as provisional cells because the main building had to be refurbished after a riot, but because of the high number of persons deprived of their liberty, the metal containers were still in use. Las Latas had four sectors, with two sectors for detainees considered to demonstrate “special behaviour” and those who asked for tighter security (E and F). The conditions in all of these containers were appalling, leading to complete disrespect of the human dignity of the detainees and the police guards working in these facilities. The containers did not have any windows but only very small openings on one side. In summer, the temperatures in the metal boxes were 36 GE.09-17655