Duterte: Ex-convicts beyond reform, monsters, homosexuals

FORMER convicted felons are beyond reform since prison time has turned them into monsters, if not homosexuals, President Rodrigo Duterte said.

Duterte made the claim in a speech during the anniversary of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) wherein he defended the justice system in the country, which stressed on retribution based on the Revised Penal Code, rather than on the positivist theory of western countries.