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Fire: Structural Responses
nanunungkulan to refrain from generating income
in an illegal manner, such as extortion.
Pangkat officers do not get any allowance, but
they get their income from their black-market
activities inside the Jail. They are involved in
business ventures that range from operating a
food stall to peddling illegal drugs.
Inasmuch as inmates have a lot to spend for,
their sources of income are plenty as well. The
sources include the inmates themselves, particularly
the VIPs, visitors, volunteers, and NGOs.
There are affluent inmates who take it upon themselves
to better the living conditions inside their
cells by donating electric fans and medicines.
Some NGOs and religious groups, meanwhile,
sponsor certain projects initiated by a brigada.
Inmates have devised several ways to raise
funds.
1. Calling Fee. When an inmate has a visitor,
it is assumed that the former gets some
money from the latter. He thus contributes
P10 to the cell funds every time he
has a visitor. This, however, only applies
to inmates who have been in jail for less
than six months. Cell leaders, meanwhile,
are exempted.
2. Tax. Inmates, particularly the nanu-nungkulan,
are allowed to put up businesses
inside the jail. Some of them operate a
Table 5.8: Gastos ng Brigada Ayon sa Inmates
Cell funds are kept in a vault that is publicly
displayed but properly guarded.
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