by pna
More than half of 1,726 detainees waiting trial of their cases at the Cebu City Jail are facing drug charges, officials said.
As of this week, the city jail has a population of 2,057 inmates, Cebu City Jail Warden Johnson Calub said.
Calub said the facility also had 179 insular prisoners with and without pending cases, while 152 others are prisoners whose sentences were less than three years.
Of the 1,726 inmates, 958 or 55.5 percent are facing drug-related cases, 305 with robbery cases, 245 with theft cases, 212 with murder cases, 79 with rape cases and 41 with homicide cases.
Calub said the facility was already over-crowded and needed to be decongested.
But he said they had programs and services to help inmates, who had served their maximum penalty, be released from prison.
Calub said they have para-legal officers who monitor the prisoners’ cases and follow up on the cases’ status in the different courts.
He said they also sent insular prisoners to the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa as part of their decongestion program.
Insular prisoners are those who have been convicted and sentenced to more than three years of imprisonment for the crime they committed.
Last month, Calub said, they sent 22 insular prisoners to Muntinlupa and they would send 30 more in the next couple of months.
Those sent to the NBP included inmates convicted of rape, robbery, murder and illegal drugs cases among others.
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