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BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN
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Friday, December 23, 2016
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BACOLOD City – For holding a noise barrage, 29 inmates at the female dormitory of the Metro Bacolod District Jail in Barangay Handumanan were transferred to the Negros Occidental District Jail in Bago City.
The inmates asked the jail management to allow their families to stay with them in the facility from Dec. 24, 2016 to Jan. 1, 2017.
But jail policy prohibits that, so their request was denied, according to Jail Inspector Mar Louie Salcedo, spokesperson for the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Negros Island Region.
The detainees protested the decision by holding a noise barrage from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday. They also demanded that female dorm warden Jail Inspector Jean Olive Unciano be relieved.
The following day, the inmates were transferred.
Jail officers led by BJMP acting regional director Senior Superintendent Hernan Grande and Police Station 10 officers then conducted a “greyhound operation” at the facility and seized contraband items.
Among the items confiscated were improvised bladed weapons, pairs of scissors, pens, lighters, and cash, Salcedo said./PN
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