Bogor needs new penitentiary

Bogor needs new penitentiary

BOGOR: Paledang Bogor Penitentiary warden Rachmat Tanoe
stressed, on Monday, the urgency of establishing another prison
in the municipality as the penitentiary currently houses 1,151
inmates, far beyond its capacity of only 500.

"The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights had issued a working
order last year to start the construction of a new prison in the
Bogor regency," he said. "It's been very difficult to get land.
Recently the regency administration gave four hectares of land in
Pondok Rajeg area. Hopefully, in the near future, we will have a
new prison."

The 600-square-meter Paledang Bogor penitentiary has 44 rooms
for the inmates. Five groups of guards, comprising 15 guards in
each group, work shifts in guarding all the inmates.

Rachmat said that Paledang Bogor could not easily transfer its
inmates to other penitentiaries in West Java because most of them
were also full due to the high crime rate in the province. --
Antara