Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III said the country should have only one modernized maximum security prison because regionalizing it would be “impractical.” | DFernandezINQ
“Ngayon , since this will be a state-of-the-art maximum security prison, I believe that we should only build one kasi it would be impractical to regionalize state-of-the-art world-class maximum security prisons,” he added.“I agree that we should only build one maximum security prison that is really meant to house all those who should be in a facility of this nature,” the chief of the Department of Justice said.
In a span of 20 years, around 400 prisoners have escaped the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, Remulla noted. Hence, he is pushing for the relocation of the penitentiary.Bilibid ‘killers’: Disease, congestion claim 5K inmates yearly“Right now, there are 17,000 people in the maximum security area of the Bilibid, which is designed to house only 7,000 people. It’s really overpopulated now,” the chief said.
He, however, assured senators that the figure will be slashed with the implementation of the good conduct, time allowance law and decongestion program, among others.
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