Tag: Early release

Guevarra: Approval of SOJ required before convicts sentenced to life in prison, reclusion perpetua are released

(Eagle News)–The approval of the Justice Secretary is required before an inmate who was  sentenced to life imprisonment or reclusion perpetua and who has served his sentence can be released. According to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, this is according to a department order issued by then-Justice Secretary Alfredo Caguioa in 2015. Caguioa is now a Supreme Court justice. According to Guevarra, the department order also affirmed the authority of the Bureau of Corrections director general  […]