{"id":232202,"date":"2019-09-24T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232202"},"modified":"2019-09-24T20:04:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T00:04:12","slug":"doj-welcomes-lawmakers-proposal-to-upgrade-prison-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/24\/doj-welcomes-lawmakers-proposal-to-upgrade-prison-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ welcomes lawmakers&#8217; proposal to upgrade prison facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229875\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/049a6437.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-229875\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/049a6437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/049a6437.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/049a6437-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/049a6437-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/049a6437-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, Sept. 5, 2019. 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Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday welcomed proposals to improve correctional facilities in the country, including the creation of a separate &#8220;supermax&#8221; facility for high-profile heinous crimes convicts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DOJ will support any and all bills aiming to decongest and modernize our prison facilities,&#8221; Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told newsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Guevarra, however, conceded that the proposals face an uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is however a question of legislative priority, given the competing claims of the more productive sectors like public works and education,&#8221; the Justice Secretary explained.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ chief said the possibility of privatizing portions of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) property in Muntinlupa could provide a possible solution but explained the measure would require an exhaustive study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A possible game-changer is the privatization of the sellable portions of the NBP property, which could be the stand-alone-funding source, but this is subject to a comprehensive legal audit and feasibility study, not to mention the political will to do it,&#8221; Guevarra explained.<\/p>\n<p>The NBP is located adjacent to key property developments in the southern portion of Metro Manila and is three towns away from the posh Barangay Ayala Alabang.<\/p>\n<p>Senate panels earlier aired recommendations creating a separate facility for convicts of high-level heinous crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Committees on Justice and Human Rights, Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, and Finance earlier filed Senate Bill 1055, which seeks the establishment of a separate facility for prisoners of heinous crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday welcomed proposals to improve correctional facilities in the country, including the creation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":229875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232216,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232202\/revisions\/232216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}