The country's Judiciary should push for the creation of more courts and hire more numbers of judges to ensure proactive actions on all pending cases as well as help decongest prisons and detention centers nationwide, Senator Raffy Tulfo said Wednesday.

Tulfo suggested the Supreme Court should conduct regional assessments to determine which places in the country have an insufficient number of judges and the least number of courthouses.

He added that the move will address the "clogging of court dockets that could promote the swift provision of justice to poor and innocent individuals" rotting in jail pending trial of their cases.

The lawmaker stressed that there are many inmates in city jails who were "wrongly accused of crimes they did not commit or were merely used as the fall guys by erring authorities."

Tulfo said the courts have been "overwhelmed" with criminal cases that lead to prolonging justice for the victims.