Prisoners would be sorted according to the crimes they committed in a regionalization plan that would decongest the New Bilibid Prison in Metro Manila, which can only accommodate 6,000 inmates but is currently detaining roughly 30,000, an official-- READ:
Prison in Metro Manila, which can only accommodate 6,000 inmates but is currently detaining roughly 30,000, an official said.
“In the three regions, we will choose where the drugs, the rape, the murder will go. We will not lump them together. We will sort them out,” Catapang said in a media interview late Friday. “This is perhaps the biggest in Asia and one of the biggest in the world. Families find it hard to visit their relatives in prison, especially if they come from farther away,” the Justice chief said earlier.
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