Why were six packs of shabu found in the Cebu city jail?
Warden Johnson Calub was asked to explain this in last Tuesday’s Police Coordinating and Advisory Council (PCAC) meeting.
“We want to know how drugs were brought into the city jail. Let us not stop in asking them to be vigilant,” said Acting Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella.
Jail guards confiscated the shabu late Tuesday afternoon from inmate Maximo Gomez Jr. The contraband was hidden inside a cigarette pack.
Labella also wrote Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas yesterday about “inhuman conditions” suffered by 2,000 inmates who stay in an overcrowded facility, with health and nutrition problems.
“These jail concerns have been mounting to the level of serious and life-threatening, and in as much as Cebu City has taken steps in providing better conditions for its inmates, the former always seems to fall short in effecting significant improvements,” Labella wrote.
A copy of the letter was sent Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) director, Supt. Diony Mamaril.
At least 16 inmates with tuberculosis risk infecting fellow detainees but the BJMP has not assigned a doctor to the city jail. The allocation for each inmate’s medicine is only P3 per day which “could hardly pay for one tablet of paracetamol” and the P50 daily meal allowance needs to be increased.
The DILG is the head agency of the BJMP which runs the jail.
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