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Freedom regained

The Department of Justice sets free a total of 357 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) from various jails nationwide, including 154 prisoners from the...

CHR: Respect prisoners’ right to suffrage

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Monday asked the government to apply the human rights standards for all persons deprived of liberty (PDL)...

Over 33,400 prisoners nationwide to cast their votes — BJMP

They may be isolated from the outside world, but 33,409 prisoners, euphemistically called Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) under the Bureau of Jail Management...

Myanmar junta says to free 1,600 prisoners in new year amnesty

Myanmar's junta will release over 1,600 prisoners from jails across the country on Sunday to mark the Buddhist new year, it said, without specifying...

Jail jabs

The Cavite Provincial Jail and the Provincial Health Office vaccinate prisoners at the Cavite Penology Jail compound at Barangay Lapidario, Trece Martires City on...

Deadly virus spreading in jails in Egypt–HRW

At least 14 prisoners have died from likely COVID-19 complications in scantly-monitored outbreaks of the disease at Egyptian detention centres, Human Rights Watch said...

Qatar imposes mandatory masks on pain of prison

Qatar on Sunday began enforcing the world's toughest penalties of up to three years' imprisonment for failing to wear masks in public, as it...

California to free 3,500 prisoners

The prison system in the largest US state of California plans to release about 3,500 non-violent inmates early to help mitigate the spread of...

Love knows no barrier

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Indonesia’s convicts return to prison

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PH jails overpopulated by 111,046, CoA reports

The Commission on Audit has claimed the total jail population of the Philippines had exceeded its ideal capacity by 439 percent, or an over...

Manhunt on for 6 Laguna jailbirds

STA. CRUZ, Laguna—Laguna police have launched a province-wide manhunt for six prisoners who bolted the provincial jail in Poblacion 1, Sta. Cruz here at...

14 Jolo inmates bolt jail; 3 killed

THREE inmates were killed Sunday and another was wounded after escaping from jail in Jolo, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group. The casualties were...

Binay files bill seeking to decongest PH’s jails

ALARMED by recent reports of severe overcrowding in the detention cells, Senator Nancy Binay has filed a measure seeking the automatic release of prisoners...
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