(BusinessWorld) A TOTAL of 5,982 inmates have been freed under the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., the country’s Justice secretary told the United Nations (UN) on Monday.
“The principal guiding principle in our prison reform program is to consider PDLs (persons deprived of liberty) not as numbers but as human beings with dignity and rights,” Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remulla told the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna on May 22.
“Making our prison facilities in the Philippines more humane and more dignified is one of our priorities,” he said in his UN speech, a copy of which was sent to reporters on Wednesday.
He added that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had recommended granting executive clemency to 533 inmates who are elderly and sick.
The speech was delivered during a side event at the UN Commission’s 32nd session. .. Read More