By Dominic B. dela Cruz
Staff reporter
Batac
City—The P17 million expansion of the Bureau
of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) expansion building in this city is 100% complete.
Jail/Insp. Antonio Sapaden made
this announcement. He, however, noted that the building still needs it own
transformer, thus there is still no electricity in the building.
Mr. Sapaden said the
expansion building is intended for male persons deprived of liberty (PDLs)
while the female detainees will remain at their existing dormitories.
He explained further that the
transfer of the PDLs at the expansion building would depend on the presence of
electricity including water availability.
He also added that they also
still need to increase the perimeter fence’s height to avoid any escape attempt
from the PDLs.
The two-storey building is
located at the back of the existing jail at Brgy. Magnuang and was funded by
the national government through the “Build-Build-Build” program of President Rodrigo
R/ Duterte.
Ideally, PDLs per dormitory should
at least be from 10 to 15 according to United Nations’ standards.
The expansion building has a
total of 16 dormitories that has their respective comfort rooms.
The old dormitories will
serve as activity areas of the PDLs; this however will still depend on identifying
ideal activities for them.
As of press time, there are
207 PDLs at the BJMP Batac facing drug-related cases. This account for the
biggest number of detainees.
With its expansion, BJMP-Batac
now has the largest land area in Region I with a total of 7,031 square meters.
The existing BJMP lot here was
donated by the Batac City government, including the additional 3,500-square
meter lot for the expansion through a deed of usufruct for 50 years which is
renewable.
In an earlier interview, Batac Mayor Albert D. Chua said
the expansion granting the 3,500 square meters owned by the city government of
Batac for the city jail will be used for improvement through a deed of
usufruct.
Mr. Chua believes that the expansion would help solve the
long-time congestion problem of the Batac jail which also serves the adjacent
municipalities of Currimao, Paoay, Pinili and Badoc, aside from Batac.
In addition, the city government here also funded the
construction of a perimeter fence around the newly constructed city jail’s
expansion building through a resolution.
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