Senator Miguel Zubiri has filed Senate Bill 1004 to establish a separate prison facility across the region for heinous crime convicts.
Zubiri filed the said bill in the wake of the near release of former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez.
He said, “Heinous crime convicts and high-risk prisoners belong to maximum security prisons in isolated and uninhabited islands, far from their victims and society at large.”
Zubiri also lamented that while jails keep society safe and punish criminals by restricting their liberty, Sanchez was living luxuriously and still enjoys privileges as proven by actual videos taken at the New Bilibid Prison.
The senator proposed the establishment of Heinous Crimes Penitentiary (HCP). Based on the proposed Senate bill, inmates from the New Bilibid Prison and other Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) jails should be transferred to HCP facilities a year after its establishment.
“Convicts like Mayor Sanchez belong to the proposed Heinous Crimes Penitentiary to be run by the Bureau of Corrections. I propose that personnel of the Bureau build and operate several HCP facilities in several regions to be identified by the Secretary of Justice,” he said.
The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was a maximum federal facility located on an island in California, United States. It housed the most dangerous criminals in the US. The facility operated from August 11, 1934, until March 21, 1963.—AAC (with reports from Grace Casin)
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