Pris­on­ers at Tetron Bar­racks and Staubles Bay in Ch­aguara­mas con­tin­ued their hunger strike for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive day yes­ter­day.

Vow­ing to main­tain pres­sure on prison and po­lice of­fi­cials in the hope of be­ing trans­ferred back to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Mau­si­ca and the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa, sev­er­al in­mates, speak­ing through their at­tor­neys, said they would con­tin­ue to refuse dai­ly meals.

Well-placed sources told Guardian Me­dia that re­fur­bish­ment work is on­go­ing at the Wayne Jack­son Build­ing at the MSP. For­mer­ly known as Build­ing 13, it is the fa­cil­i­ty where high-risk in­mates were typ­i­cal­ly housed.

The sources said the ren­o­va­tions will in­clude en­hanced se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures de­signed to pre­vent in­mates from com­mu­ni­cat­ing with peo­ple out­side the fa­cil­i­ty. How­ev­er, there is no time­line yet for the com­ple­tion of the work.

Prison Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe was un­reach­able for com­ment yes­ter­day.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said on Mon­day that the two Ch­aguara­mas fa­cil­i­ties meet the stan­dards for law­ful de­ten­tion, adding that pris­on­ers do not have the op­tion of choos­ing where they are housed.