More than 20 days before Christmas, the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is expecting to release around 5,000 inmates, or persons deprived
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The government plans to release the prisoners through the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, which in the past was applied in questionable instances like in the case of rape-slay convict Antonio Sanchez
More than 74,000 persons deprived of liberty have been released from facilities run by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in the past 10 months, a move lauded by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) leadership as it decongests over 400 jails in the country.