GROUNDBREAKING. A streamer hangs at the construction site for the groundbreaking ceremony of a PHP21-million, three-storey jail facility inside the North Cotabato District Jail in Barangay Amas, North Cotabato on Wednesday (March 11, 2020). The new jail building, set for completion in three months, is expected to decongest some 1,000 inmates cramped in cells fitted only for 700 prisoners. (Photo courtesy of North Cotabato PIO)
COTABATO CITY – To improve the conditions of inmates at the North Cotabato district jail, provincial government officials broke ground Wednesday for the construction of a three-storey building inside the jail compound in Barangay Amas, Kidapawan City.
“The 18-prison cell-building, is expected to be completed in three months will house inmates currently occupying crowded and dilapidated quarters,” North Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco said in a statement.
Costing PHP21 million, the project will be built by Mark Anthony Construction Company inside the compound of the provincial jail managed by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP).
The provincial government has also allowed the BJMP to build additional facilities on the property.
Currently, the facility is home to more than 1,000 persons deprived of liberty occupying cells that were designed for about 700 inmates. (PNA)
