Justice Minister to Build Special Prisons for Drug Dealers
6 May 2015 13:12 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly plans to establish special prisons for drug dealers so as to tackle the rampant narcotics circulation in the country’s slammers.
“Dealers with strong networking will be grouped and placed at some particular prisons,” Laoly said at JS Luwansa Hotel on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. “We will put them at three or four prisons with multi-layered security.”
Laoly said this strategy was also aimed at pauperizing drug dealers when serving their time. “Otherwise, they won’t learn their lessons,” he said.
The minister said he was irked by the facts that many drug dealers, including narcotics kingpin Freddy Budiman, were still enjoying telecommunication facilities—such as cell phones—behind bars. Thus, his ministry would team with the Information and Communication Ministry to install signal scramblers at the planned special penitentiaries, he said.
“We have talked to the Information and Communication Minister that the security [at the planned prisons] will be beefed up, from X-ray to CCTVs, and that the access to the prisons would be using finger print devices,” he said.
Laoly added that he would charge wardens who conspired with drug dealers with the penal code. “We will also take stern action against crooked wardens, that’s why we are going to find wardens with proven track records,” he said.
REZA ADITYA
