Deadline nears for convicts’ return; still no arrest order

📆 9/16/2019 1:50 AM
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Hundreds of heinous crime convicts “prematurely released” through a law that rewards good behavior in detention have four more days to return to prison before they are hunted down as fugitives. | dpazzibuganINQ

Waiting for the expiry of the Sept. 19 “deadline” given by President Rodrigo Duterte to the convicts to turn themselves in, the Department of Justice has yet to issue an order for their arrest.Justice Undersecretary Deo Marco, who heads the department’s interim oversight committee on the Bureau of Corrections , on Sunday said there were no orders yet for the arrest of the freed heinous crime convicts.

“Like all the rest, they have until Sept. 19 to surrender. After that, the police will also treat them as convicts prematurely released but who will be recommitted to [serve] the rest of their sentence,” Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete said on Sunday. The Philippine National Police said on Sunday that the convicts turned themselves in at police stations across the country.PNP spokesperson Bernard Banac said the surrenderers had been turned over to the corrections bureau.

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