Bekasi to get new prison

Bekasi to get new prison

BEKASI: The regental administration has provided seven
hectares of land in Cikarang district to build a new
penitentiary.

"The new facility will provide greater comfort for the
inmates," Regent Saleh Manaf said on Wednesday.

According to Bekasi Penitentiary warden Haviluddin, the prison
currently accommodate 1,211 inmates, almost four times its
maximum capacity of 350.

Haviluddin said the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights will
shoulder the cost of the construction of the new facility.
--Antara