Pushers, murderers shipped to Munti

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ILOILO City – To decongest jails in Western Visayas, 56 inmates were shipped to the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila.

Twenty of the inmates were from the Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo; 20 from the Iloilo City District Jail in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district; and 16 from Negros Occidental.

All of the inmates were male and convicted either for drug trafficking, murder, homicide or frustrated murder, according to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 6.

Seven of the inmates from the IDJ were serving “life imprisonment” – six of them for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and one for murder.

The rest were serving prison terms of at least eight years.

The BJMP transported the inmates to Metro Manila via roll on, roll off ship on Wednesday.

According to Superintendent Gilbert Peremne, BJMP assistant regional director, this was the third batch of inmates shipped to the national penitentiary since January this year.

Overall, 206 inmates from Western Visayas have been moved there since January, he said.

“We have around 15 more convicted inmates. They may be shipped to Munti on the last week of this month or first week of June,” said Superintendent Jhon Montero, IDJ warden.

The IDJ must be decongested, he stressed.

The prison facility currently has around 1,900 inmates, said Montero.

“As much as possible all convicted inmates must be shipped to the national penitentiary to decongest our facility,” said Superintendent Vicente Papelera, warden of the Iloilo City Disrict Jail.

Of his 20 inmates moved to Munti, 15 were sentenced to “life imprisonment” either for drug trafficking, murder or homicide, said Papelera./PN

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