THE PHILIPPINE Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday said it is considering building a modern maximum-security prison for heinous crime convicts in a country known for having the world’s most crowded jails. READ
At a Senate hearing streamed live on Facebook, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla proposed to transfer the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City to Nueva Ecija province in the country’s north.
The local Commission on Human Rights has repeatedly flagged the worsening congestion in the country’s jails, more recently because of the high and sudden influx of arrested suspects in connection with ex-President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s war on drugs that has killed thousands. Senator Robinhood C. Padilla told the same hearing jail officials should uphold the human rights even in prisons.
The former action star earlier filed a bill that seeks to establish penal farms across the regions to help decongest jails and make it more convenient for family members to visit inmates. Mr. Angara noted that foreign diplomats have been asking him about the pending cases against Ms. De Lima, who claims to have been politically persecuted after she led a probe of Mr. Duterte’s drug war in Davao City when he was still its mayor.
Ombudsman investigators had charged the ex-senator and her aide with conspiracy to extort money from self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa.
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