Fifty-one persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Leyte Regional Prison (LRP) in Abuyog, Leyte have pleaded for the grant of parole and executive clemency.
The LRP said the 51 PDLs have been interviewed last July 5 by the Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) Regional Office VIII as part of its pre-parole and pre-executive clemency investigation.
It said results of the PPA’s scrutiny and probe on the prison records of the 51 PDLs will be released immediately.
It said the interviews and scrutiny of records were arranged by the LRP’s Pre-Parole and/Pre-Executive Clemency Coordinating Committee led by Supervising Parole and Probation Officer (SPPO) Jo Ann A. Dacera and assisted by the Inmate Documents and Processing Section (IDPS) Chief CSO4 Maximo R. Marcos II.
“Under the leadership of BuCor Director General Gerald Q. Bantag, C/Supt. Francisco G. Salvador Jr., acting LRP superintendent, consistently looks after the welfare of PDLs and implements measures and activities for their release,” it also said.
Last July 1, the prison facility released 25 PDLs. LRP said that among those freed were 22 PDLs who had been granted parole, two who had served their jail terms, and one who had been acquitted of his criminal charges.
From January 1 to June 30, 2022, LRP had released a total of 180 qualified PDLs, it added.