BUHAY Party-list Representative Lito Atienza urged President Rodrigo Duterte to direct all jail management heads to release inmates who may have overserved their sentences.

“Many inmates have already served their sentences but continue to languish in jails because of the slow pace of our justice system anxd with no lawyers to defend and pursue their case. This is one of the reasons why we are against the death penalty. Because of our defective and disjointed criminal justice system, only the poor who cannot afford lawyers, will be sentenced to death. While the moneyed criminals buy their way through the corruption network and go scot-free,” Atienza said.

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