Some 300 inmates of the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong had been quickly reunited with their husbands detained on the New Bilibid Prison on Christmas Day.
According to Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Officer-in-Charge Gregorio Catapang Jr., the go to was made for inmates to benefit from the vacation season.
“Gusto natin ma-feel nila na kahit nga PDL sila, may right sila na sumaya kahit Pasko, kahit nitong holidays na ma-enjoy nila ‘yung family nila,” he stated in Katrina Son’s report on “24 Oras Weekend” on Sunday.
“‘Yan ‘yung nagpapalakas ng loob sa kanila na tapusin na ang kanilang sintensya at ‘wag gumawa ng hindi maganda, para sa ganon mapabilis ang laya nila,” he added.
(We need them to really feel that though they’re PDLs, they’ve a proper to be joyful throughout Christmas, the vacations, that they get pleasure from their household. This is what offers them power to complete their sentence and to not do unsuitable, thus hastening their launch.)
The program took an emotional flip, as amongst those that took half is a feminine inmate incarcerated for 20 years who reunited together with her husband and her son, who’re additionally each detained.
The BuCor, nonetheless, ensured strict safety protocols after a customer was reported to have tried to smuggle a sachet of unlawful medicine into the power.
“One woman visitor was caught in her possession a suspected drug — isang sachet po na nakalagay sa kaniyang ari. We will be filing appropriate charges against her,” CSI Sonny Del Rosario of the Public Information Office stated in the identical report.
(One lady customer was caught with suspected medicine in her possession — one sachet hidden inside her genitalia. We will probably be submitting applicable prices in opposition to her.)
Del Rosario stated that as a part of the protocols in place, guests must undergo physique searches, a scanner, a steel detector, and K9 inspection earlier than being allowed entry into services. — Jon Viktor Cabuenas/DVM, GMA Integrated News
