FROM August to October of this year, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has released a total of 740 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) as part of the current administration’s program to decongest the country’s prison facilities.
The DPPF has a PDL population of 8,707 as of May 2024 despite its capacity of only 1,350 or an occupancy rate of 645 percent; IPPF has a 4,430 PDL population although its capacity is only 645 or an occupancy rate of 687 percent; SRPPF has a 3,721 PDL population for a maximum capacity of 711 or 523-percent occupancy rate; SPPF has more than 3,000 PDLs with a maximum capacity of 1,175 or an occupancy rate of 284 percent; LRP’s PDL population has reached more than 3,000 with a maximum capacity of only 687 or 481 percent occupancy rate; and CIW with more than 3,000 PDLs although its maximum capacity is only 1,008 or an occupancy rate of 309 percent.
However, the plan would have to take the backseat because of budgetary constraint.“What was not given by the national government in terms of our submission was the Bucor prison modernization program that what we wanted to introduce to have a decentralize jail system and not have a mega prisons,” Remulla told the Senate.
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