At a public briefing, Catapang said some 300 to 1,000 prisoners qualified for parole or clemency may also be released following completion of pertinent documents. READ:
The Bureau of Corrections on Wednesday said it intends to set free even as many as 700 inmates before 2022 ends in connection with the jail decongestion program of the government.
BuCor officer-in-charge Gregorio Catapang, Jr. said the government also eyes the transfer of some 3,000 PDLs from the National Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City by next year when they finalize the tripartite agreement with the Department of Justice, the Department of Health, and the Department of National Defense.
At a public briefing, Catapang said some 300 to 1,000 prisoners qualified for parole or clemency may also be released following completion of pertinent documents.individuals in prison or those aged between 60 and 70, he disclosed. “There’s a law saying when you are 70 years old and above, you can apply for parole or executive clemency. So we are planning to apply it to our PDLs who are 65 to 70 years old and above,” Catapang said.He also revealed that the government has released P300 million for the construction of new buildings to decongest existing ones.“So if you add the three colonies that were given P300 million to construct new buildings, more or less that’s 4,000 inmates from NBP that may be transferred.
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