Rutan Rantau Di Kalsel Punya Capacity 154 Percent, Penyakit Menular TBC Rentan Menyebar

KALSEL - Class IIB Rantau Detention Center (Rutan), Tapin Regency, South Kalimantan, experienced an overcapacity of up to 154 percent of the ideal capacity of 112 people, now the number of residents is recorded at 282 people.

Head of the Rantau Rutan Renaldi Hutagalung said the condition was a big problem in the service and development of the inmates.

Small buildings and packed with shortness of breath make the potential for the spread of high disease, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and itching often appear due to inadequate sanitation, he said in Rantau, Wednesday, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said his party had proposed relocating the detention center to the local government as a long-term step.

According to him, ideally the detention center needs a minimum of 10 hectares to make it more appropriate to accommodate prisoners or prisoners.

"With this condition, we are still trying our best to maintain security, order, and coaching. However, permanent solutions can only be done with relocation," he said.

He said the excess capacity at the Rantau Rutan also had an impact on fostering prisoners who could not run optimally.

The lack of activity space, he said, has made a teaching program for prisoners who cannot run optimally, such as work skills and religious activities, which can only be followed by a small number of inmates.

"For the food security program, we can only take advantage of small land around the detention center with polybag planting media," he said.

According to Renaldi, relocation is not only a need for institutions, but also concerns human rights so that inmates can serve their sentence more humanely.