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V.
MEDICAL SERVICES ................................................................................................185
A.
B.
Basic standards ........................................................................................185
Main challenges and applicable standards ..............................................190
1.
2.
3.
C.
VI.
4.
5.
Recommendations ...................................................................................200
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS OF INMATES...................................................................203
A.
Basic standards ........................................................................................203
B.
Main challenges and applicable standards ..............................................204
1.
VII.
Challenges on the lack of access to the medical services..........190
Challenges on the lack of access to the specialized
medical care...............................................................................193
The Impact of the conditions of imprisonment on the
health of persons deprived of their liberty................................194
Medical personnel .....................................................................195
Prevention and treatment of contagious diseases ....................197
Lack of conditions that allow visits to be made in a manner
that respects their dignity, under acceptably private,
sanitary, and secure conditions .................................................204
Humiliating or degrading treatment of inmates’ relatives ........206
2.
C.
Transfers to distant locations...................................................................208
D.
Recommendations ...................................................................................210
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................212
A.
Purpose of prison sentences: content and scope of Article 5.6 of the
American Convention...............................................................................212
B.
Groups at particular risk or historically subjected to discrimination .......219
C.
Recommendations ...................................................................................219
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