Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) is a jail facility in

Cebu Cebu (; ceb, Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Sugbo; tl, Lalawigan ng Cebu; hil, Kapuroan sang Sugbo), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 16 ...

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Cebu Province Cebu (; ceb, Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Sugbo; tl, Lalawigan ng Cebu; hil, Kapuroan sang Sugbo), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas Regions of the P ...

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. It is a maximum security facility with a capacity for 1,600 inmates.Cebu Daily News: PB opens separate inquiry on aborted jail riot
/ref> The prison became well known for its rehabilitation program in 2005-2010 based on a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates. Known as

CPDRC Dancing Inmates CPDRC Dancing Inmates or the CPDRC dancers is a collective of prison inmates in Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison in Cebu, in Cebu Province, Philippines where the prisoners perform dance routin ...

, the recordings of the various routines of the prisoners online supervised by the head of the prison Byron F. Garcia rendered them an international online celebrity sensation and phenomenon.

In popular culture

Although CPDRC is known for its Dancing Inmates, it has also appeared in a Hollywood film. The final boxing scene in the climax of the 2017 film ''A Prayer Before Dawn'', was filmed at CPRDC as Thai authorities denied permission for filming in the real Klong Prem prison.

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Buildings and structures in Cebu City Prisons in the Philippines {{Corrections in the Philippines