By the Bohol ChronicleTension gripped the crowded Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center (BDRC) when most of its 301 inmates staged a riot Monday morning destroying 25 cells.
This aggravated the situation following last Sunday afternoon's hostage-taking by inmates of their visitors. Thorough and stringent inspection by BDRC officials on visiting relatives of inmates were seen as reasons for staging untoward reactions.
BDRC Information officer Felix Cempron, in an interview, said the violent move prompted BDRC officials led by Col. Raul Mendez, OIC provincial warden, to order "to shoot" incase inmates take to the fence.
Order was finally restored yesterday at the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center (BDRC) following a three-day standoff among 301 inmates and their prison guards.
The inmates, who initially demanded for a more lenient policy of allowing visitors into the BDRC, agreed to peacefully return to their detention cells but demanded for the removal from office of Mendez.
Mendez, in an interview with the Chronicle yesterday, said
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