{"id":7946,"date":"2023-03-20T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:03:58","slug":"justice-department-lowers-bail-amounts-for-indigent-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/justice-department-lowers-bail-amounts-for-indigent-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department lowers bail amounts for indigent detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bail amounts<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for criminal detainees will be lowered, based on arecent order from the Department of Justice, which could free about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/lower-bail-amount-indigents-can-free-prisoners-raymund-narag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three out of ten<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> incarcerated people in the Philippines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A memorandum issued by Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on February 20, 2023, set the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/doj-circular-lowers-recommended-bail-amount-criminal-cases\/?_thumbnail_id=2219973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bail cap<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for indigent defendants at 10,000 pesos and halved the bail amounts for prosecutors of indigent defendants under the 2018 New Bail Bond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raymund Narag, professor of criminology, called the move a &#8220;great success,&#8221; given that the Philippines&#8217; New Bilibid Prison National Detention Center is beyond its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/lower-bail-amount-indigents-can-free-prisoners-raymund-narag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">capacity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As of October 2022, the New Bilibid Prison held an inmate population nearly five times higher than its capacity allowed. On January 27, 2023, the Justice Sector Coordinating Council discussed the 330% <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/doj-circular-lowers-recommended-bail-amount-criminal-cases\/?_thumbnail_id=2219973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">overcrowding rate <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of New Bilibid Prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Raffy Lerma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bail amounts for criminal detainees will be lowered, based on arecent order from the Department of Justice, which could free about three out of ten incarcerated people in the Philippines.\u00a0 A memorandum issued by Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on February 20, 2023, set the bail cap for indigent defendants at 10,000 pesos and halved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}