HERE’S a gift for prisoners in time for President Rodrigo Duterte’s birthday on March 28.

The chief executive has granted executive clemency to 127 elderly and sickly prisoners under the Bureau of Corrections (Bucor), which runs the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa and the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong.

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