BALANGA CITY – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in coordination with the Bataan police confiscated various items considered as potential threat and cigarettes from inmates during a random inspection conducted Wednesday at the Bataan District Jail (BDJ) here.
Jail Supt. Ambrocio Ambulan, BDJ warden, said the confiscation was the result of searches made by BJMP personnel from Bataan and Region 3 and the police Intelligence and Investigation branch led by Chief Insp. Elmer Santiago.
Seized from inside the detention cells were ballpens, spoons, forks, buckles, pieces of lumber, galvanized iron cloth hangers, among some others.
“Considered na kontrabando ang mga ito dahil potential threat na maaaring makapanakit sa kapwa inmates at maging sa BJMP personnel,” Ambulan said.
Also confi scated from both inmates and some visitors were many sticks of cigarettes. These were all destroyed in a container filled with water. Ambulan said they have taken out of the prison cells even some pocket books that are not banned per se. “Kaya lang ginagamit na pambalot ito ng sigarilyo para hindi punado,” the warden said.
There are 1,291 inmates, 114 of them women, at the former Bataan Provincial Jail.
