The military will upgrade the security arrangements and amenities of a Camp Aguinaldo Facility that will become the jail cell of convicted U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton.
The cost of the renovations will be borne by the Philippines and the government of the United States, which reportedly wanted the repairs done to ensure that Pemberton’s cell met international standards.
Pemberton is temporarily detained at the converted container van at the mutual defense board-security engagement board compound in Camp Aguinaldo where he had been held since his arrest last year.
The Olongapo Regional Trial Court initially ordered Pemberton’s detention in bilibid.
However, citing the terms of the visiting forces agreement, the U.S. and the Philippines have agreed that the facility at the barracks of the armed forces custodial center should be Pemberton’s place of detention where he will serve out his 6-to-12-year sentence for the killing of transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer Laude” at an Olongapo City Hotel last year.
