Cotabato City administrator Danda Juanday admitted that the Cotabato City jail was already full, and that “there are not enough funds to put up new jail facilities at this time.”The Cotabato City Jail is now packed with 400 inmates, when it was built to accommodate only 50 detainees. Cotabato City jails already packedCotabato City – Local officials here are in a quandary where to detain surrendering crime offenders, whose numbers have been increasing because of the city police’s continued anti-illegal drug operation, officials said here. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology said it was still awaiting updates on the development of a new P12-million jail facility for Cotabato City to de-congest the current jail building. Police Station 1 is already full with more than 20 detainees while the cells in Police Station 2 and Police Station 3 are already packed with 12 detainees in each jail. Danilo Reyes, Cotabato City police director, said police stations here have only three lock-up cells, and these are the initial detention facilities where newly arrested persons are kept before they are committed to the jail on orders of the court.

Source: Manila Bulletin August 09, 2016 14:10 UTC