(Eagle News)–Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri on Wednesday, Sept. 4, called for the establishment of “Alcatraz-like prisons” for high-risk prisoners. Zubiri made the pitch for “heinous crime penitentiaries” under his Senate Bill No. 1004, as the Senate blue ribbon and justice committees probed the release of convicts of heinous crimes under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law. There are now proposals to amend the law for it to explicitly exclude convicts of heinous crimes, following outrage […]





