Bataan detainees to get jobs

BATAAN DISTRICT JAIL– A new hope can be seen by the more than 2,000 inmates inside the Bataan District Jail as its new leadership is proposing to have them get decent jobs while  incarcerated.

This was revealed by Supt.  Wilson Tauli, newly-designated Provincial Warden of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) here, who said that the inmates here can be productive by providing them income generating jobs.

“We can arrange for them to get jobs from factories in the Freeport Area of Bataan or any other companies in the province by getting raw materials there, then the inmates will assemble or do it inside the jail, said Warden Tauli.

He said that he did this already when he was a warden in Marikina. “They can earn while their cases are being heard; there is nothing wrong with it since the raw materials that they are going to assemble will be brought here inside the jail,” pointed out Tauli. As of press time, the number of inmates here is more than 2,000 most of them are not yet convicted.

Gov. Abet S. Garcia said that there is already a shortage of workers in the province with the pouring in of various investments in Bataan, particularly in FAB, Limay, Hermosa and SBMA.

Unknown to many, 70 to 75 percent of the total land area of SBMA belongs to Bataan, said Garcia and these are located in the towns of Hermosa, Morong and Dinalupihan.

In Mariveles town where the FAB is located, Mayor Ace Jelo “AJ” Concepcion said that they badly need skilled workers and personnel with the arrival of new investors and the expansion of other existing multi-national companies in the economic zone.

Hermosa town Mayor Jopet Inton also said that a number of investors have also been putting up shops at the Hermosa Ecozone and Industrial Park, saying some of the companies inside it have also been expanding their operations to meet the bigger demand of their products abroad and for local consumption.

Warden Tauli said that he will get in touch with factories and companies for his proposed jobs for the inmates.