Statement of Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda
on the release of the fact-finding panel report on BuCor
“Correcting the Bureau of Corrections”
The President has authorized the Department of Justice to release to the public, the fact-finding panel's report on the Bureau of Corrections.
The tasks before the Department of Justice and other concerned agencies are clear. The President himself has expressed concern about congestion in our prisons and drugs being introduced into the lives of inmates. These factors combine to promote corruption and disorder and saps, in turn, discipline and justice as rules may be unclear or arbitrarily applied to inmates.
Our correctional system cannot function if it is inhumane, if it is underfunded, and if its rules aren't further codified and applied in a fair and strict manner. We would like to see more of a focus on education and rehabilitation, in partnership with individual citizens and organizations who have quietly, and without fanfare, engaged in education and training efforts for inmates, rather than the spectacular cases of favoritism and exemptions from the rules that have shocked the public.
Office of the Presidential Spokesperson
3/F New Executive Building,
Jose P. Laurel St., Malacañang, Manila
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