Zamboanga City Jail Male Dormitory (ZCJMD) warden Jail Supt. Xavier Solda (Photo courtesy of BJMP) MANILA - Former Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) spokesperson Jail Supt. Xavier Solda pledged to improve service delivery for persons deprived of liberty (PDL) as he assumed his new position as jail warden of the Zamboanga City Jail Male Dormitory (ZCJMD). "More than the reform programs and policy support, the PDL needs our care and understanding. Malaking hamon ang ating kinakaharap araw-araw ngunit kung nais nating mabago ang buhay ng mga kapatid nating nasa piitan, simulan muna natin ang mabuting pagbabago sa ating mga sarili at kung paano tayo nagsisilbi sa kanila at sa ating mga kababayan (We face great challenges every day but if we want to change the lives of our brothers and sisters in prison, let's start making good changes in ourselves and how we serve them and our fellow citizens)," Solda said during the turnover rites at the ZCJMD onMonday. BJMP 9 (Z
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) announced on Tuesday, Jan. 17, the appointment of Supt. Xavier Solda as the new jail warden of the Zamboanga City Jail Male Dormitory.
BJMP Director Allan Iral said Solda will now supervise the biggest jail facility in Western Mindanao which houses
An execution date has been set for one of York County s most notorious mass killers.
But, since Gov. Tom Wolf has set a moratorium on executions in the state, it is not likely that Paul Gamboa-Taylor will make his May 14 appointment in the state s death chamber.
On Thursday, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel signed what s called a Notice of Execution, setting an execution date for the 60-year-old mass killer. It is mostly a procedural matter. The law requires the corrections secretary to sign a warrant of execution when the governor does not take action within a specified period of time.
Central Pa. man on death row deserves new trial due to judge’s faulty jury instructions: Pa. Supreme Court
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
A central Pennsylvania man who was under a death sentence for a 23-year-old double murder deserves a new trial because a county judge told a jury it had to convict him even if prosecutors didn’t prove he participated in the slayings, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The high court made that decision despite arguments by the state attorney general’s office that the York County judge’s statement was a harmless and unintentional slip of the tongue or that there was simply a typo in the transcript of Noel Montalvo’s trial.