Duterte asked to free ailing, old prisoners

IF President Rodrigo Duterte is planning to release the “political prisoners” as part of the confidence-building measures to pursue peace negotiations with communist rebels, he should also grant pardon to old and terminally-ill prisoners, who are not guilty of heinous crimes, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said on Thursday.

According to Recto, freeing prisoners sick with cancer, the aged and the infirm is one of the means to decongest overcrowded jails in the country.