Separate facility for drug lords proposed

To prevent convicted big-time drug offenders from continuing their operations by using regular inmates at the national penitentiary, Sen. Vicente Sotto 3rd, has filed a proposed measure seeking the establishment of a separate facility that will house drug lords.

Sotto in his explanatory note of Senate Bill 3226, said recent incidents proved that convicted drug lords continue to ply their trade inside the premises of the national penitentiary, probably with the aid of regular inmates.