DoJ targets more PDL releases next year
The Department of Justice announced that it is targeting to release some 5,000 persons deprived of liberty nationwide by June 2023.
Daily TribuneThe Department of Justice announced that it is targeting to release some 5,000 persons deprived of liberty nationwide by June 2023.
DoJ Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla made the statement in line with the release of some 234 PDLs from seven prison facilities nationwide under the Bureau of Corrections.
The BuCor prison facilities are The Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Palawan, San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm in Zamboanga City, Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm in Oriental Mindoro, New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa; Davao Prison and Penal Farm in Davao del Norte and Leyte Regional Prison in Southern Leyte.
Most of the released PDLs came from NBP at 128 — eight were acquitted, 48 with expiration of maximum sentence with GCTA (good conduct time allowance), one lifting of arrest warrant, and 71 got paroled.
At the DPPF, 47 PDLs were released, seven from LRP, 21 from CIW, 16 from SRPPF, 12 from SPPF, and three from IPPF.
Remulla stressed that not all who were convicted are guilty of the crime lodged against them and not all that were acquitted are not guilty of the charges, which is part of the system of the society sometimes wrong is committed but not all the time.
The justice chief added that it's much better to free 1,000 guilty people than to incarcerate a person who is innocent of the crime lodged against him.