Senior citizen persons who are deprived of liberty (PDLs) aged 70 and above may be granted executive clemency as part of decongesting jails under the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). READ:
This possibility is being studied by the BuCor as the move was implemented during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, according to its officer-in-charge, retired Gen. Gregorio Catapang Jr., in an interview on radio dzBB Sunday.
Catapang told the radio station that possibility was being studied right now to decongest the Bucor, whose Bilibid population alone was around 30,000, some 17,000 of them considered maximum security inmates. Catapang said more than 1,500 elderly PDLs could be transferred to the facility in Fort Magsaysay, which is a drug rehabilitation facility “that was not used much.”
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