TAGBILARAN CITY, October 31, (PIA)—Next to inmates with crimes in violation of the dangerous drugs act, prisoners facing murder charges and theft comprise the top three most populations in Bohol jails.
In a report rendered by Jail Inspector Jose Rusylvi Abueva, jail statistics revealed that of the 1038 population of Bohol jails under the Bureau of jail Management and Penology (BJMP), inmates with drug cases comprise 51.34%.
Of the inmates with drug related cases, most of them, or 301 of 553 or 54.43% are committed at the Bohol District Jail (BDJ), formerly the Bohol Detention and Rehabilitation Center.
On the other hand, 19.69% or 105 of those detained for drugs are held at the Tagbilaran City District Jail (TCDJ) while 21.75% of these inmates facing drug suits are at the Talibon and Ubay District jails (UDJ), according to the BJMP.
After drug related cases, is murder, of which 118 are currently being detained to answer to the allegations in court and are awaiting for the dispensation of their cases.
Detainees facing murder comprise 11.36% of jail population in the five jails under the BJMP supervision, Inspector Abueva pointed out.
BDJ, the main jail for the province also commits 52.54% of detainees facing murder charges, while TCDJ has 19.495 or 23 inmates answering to murder.
UDJ also keeps 11.86% of inmates facing murder cases in courts. This is 14 inmates, Abueva report showed.
Next to drugs and murder, third most number of crime types among inmates in five Bohol jails is rape, which comprises 7.51% or a total of 78 of the 1038 detainees.
While BDJ keeps 35 of these inmates, TCDJ keeps 16 detainees facing rape while UDJ and Carmen District Jail (CDJ) both have 12 prisoners accused of rape.
Other leading prison crimes among Bohol jail inmates are robbery at 40 individuals detained or 3.85%, those accused of illegal possession of firearms at 39 individuals or 3.75%, followed by homicide at 38 or 3.6%. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)