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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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KALIBO, Aklan – Congestion continues to be the biggest problem in the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Aklan District Jail in Barangay Nalook.
BJMP-Aklan personnel are guarding 505 inmates, higher than the facilitity’s 200-inmate capacity. Forty-five of these are women.
The district jail headed by Chief Inspector Richard Servano has only 30 personnel. Each officer oversees 17 inmates, far from the ideal one-to-seven personnel-to-inmate ratio.
Jail congestion rates have been rising since last year’s launch of the war on drugs by the Philippine National Police.
Majority of the persons detained in BJMP-Aklan are facing drug-related cases.
There was a 25-percent increase in the number of prisoners in BJMP AKLAN from 400 in August last year to 505 in July this year.
Senior Jail Officer 4 Rolyn Malolos, BJMP-Aklan deputy chief, said there is a newly built two-storey jail building for female inmates to address “space issues.”
The primary and secondary fences that will secure the detention center are being constructed before the detainees are transferred.
BJMP-Aklan also asked the municipal government of Makato to donate a property for the construction of a new and larger jail. (Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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