FR. RANHILIO CALLANGAN AQUINO
PRISON was never meant to be an underworld — some realm of the damned. Sure, it is punishment, but it should also provide the space for renewal. Offenders are not refuse, and prison is the recognition that it never behooves us to dispose of offenders as we would harmful animals or detritus. “Correctional facility” is the term often used and unless we have decided to engage ourselves in unpardonable hypocrisy, then our prisons, superintended by the Bureau of Corrections, should do exactly that — correct, not destroy, not waste!