The Department of Justice (DOJ) has admitted experiencing difficulty in sifting through the Bureau of Correction’s (BuCor) list of 1,914 freed convicts to determine who among them shouldn’t have been released.
“The remainder would be those who have been convicted of heinous crimes,” said DOJ spokesman Undersecretary Markk Perete.
The list of the BuCor is supposed to contain the names of convicts who have been released since 2013 because of GCTA.“We are in the process of removing from that list of the inmates who have been pardoned, those who have already been on parole and granted clemency by the president,” Perete said. “If you go over the residual list the penalties imposed on certain individuals would be reclusion perpertua or reclusion perpetua to death. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the crime they committed may be heinous,” he noted.
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