A total of 100 inmates from the Cebu provincial jail and Mandaue city jail were released from detention after the Supreme Court’s “Justice on Wheels” conducted a speedy trial of their cases in a bid to address a problem in the justice system in the country.

The inmates had been detained at the provincial and city jails, most of them señior citizens and female, and have been languishing for at least three years waiting trial of their cases.

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