MELBOURNE: Persida Rueda-Acosta, chief of the Philippines’ Public Attorney’s Office (PAO), has reported to a meeting of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) here that it was able to win over a million cases that helped decongest jails across the country.

From 2007 to 2014, PAO had attained favorable disposition of 923,341 cases.

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