Inmates Of Narcotics Cases Domination Of The South Sumatra Baturaja Detention Center, Totaling 233 People

The joint team raided the rooms of residents assisted by the Baturaja Detention Center, Thursday (21/4) night. ((ANTARA/Edo Purmana/22)

SUMSEL - Residents of Correctional Inmates (WBP) Class IIB Baturaja Detention Centers are dominated by drug convicts. The number of drug convicts in detention centers in Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU) Regency was recorded at 233 people.

The Head of Subsidy for Detention Services, Mirullah said, currently the total residents of the local detention center are 411 people.

"The number includes temporary detainees or deposits, which are 69 people. There are 342 prisoners," he said in Baturaja, OKU, South Sumatra (Sumsel), quoted from Antara, Thursday, September 15.

Of this number, he said, as many as 233 people were caught in drug cases, 93 people in general, and 16 women in WBP.

According to him, the high number of drug cases shows that illicit drug trafficking in OKU Regency is quite alarming, it has spread to damage the younger generation to remote villages.

Drugs are not only used by people who have money, but can also be consumed by the lower middle class.

"This negative effect of drugs can lead to criminal acts such as stealing, robbing, defrauding and even robbery and murder," he said.

Therefore, his party seeks to eliminate the habit of consuming drugs for inmates at local detention centers by aggressively conducting routine raids in every cell in the inmates' rooms.

"Once entered the Baturaja Detention Center, all inmates must follow the applicable regulations, one of which is strictly prohibited from consuming drugs because strict action will be taken," he said.

In addition, he continued, all inmates and employees of the Baturaja Detention Center are also routinely tested for urine to ensure that no one consumes drugs.

"So don't try to consume drugs either for prisoners or prison employees because they will definitely be dealt with firmly according to the applicable law," he said.