BEIJING: President Rodrigo Duterte will order officials of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to explain why they truncated the sentences and authorised the release of nearly 2,000 prisoners serving time for heinous crimes for supposed good behaviour, according to Sen Christopher Lawrence Go.
Go, Duterte’s former long-time aide, said the President was not aware that a total of 1,914 prisoners, among them convicted drug lords, had left the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City since 2014 due to a law that reduces jail terms of convicts for good conduct.
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