00:00 The process of releasing inmates aged 70 and above
00:05 is considered the oldest PDL in the country, which is 100 years old.
00:10 The situation and other details are known in the exclusive coverage of Salim and Rizal.
00:15 Sleeping side by side on the floor,
00:21 this is how the female PDLs rest
00:23 in the therapeutic community dorm of the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong.
00:28 The dorm has 110 beds,
00:31 followed by 331 PDLs.
00:35 It's different,
00:36 until there's a bed that sleeps.
00:39 The situation in Dorm 10 is better.
00:42 No one sleeps on the floor,
00:44 but some are sleeping on one bed.
00:47 There are 194 PDLs here,
00:50 66 of them are old people.
00:54 One of them is Mamang,
00:57 she's 100 years old.
00:59 She's considered the oldest PDL in the country.
01:04 She can't walk, it's hard to see her,
01:06 and the hearing is weak.
01:09 The drug sales in 2012 are the reason
01:12 why she was imprisoned in the maximum security compound.
01:16 I really want to see her,
01:18 so I can see that I can be with my loved ones in life,
01:23 that I haven't seen them for a long time.
01:26 Brigades are now taking care of her.
01:29 We pray that at this age,
01:32 our president will be able to get rid of us.
01:34 Not everyone who's imprisoned is guilty,
01:38 and not everyone who's imprisoned is bad.
01:41 There are also changes.
01:43 Aside from Mamang,
01:44 there are more than 300 elderly people
01:47 or over 70 years old
01:49 in the 3,286 PDLs in the CIW.
01:53 15 of them are terminally ill
01:56 or have severe feelings.
01:58 Their cases are now being processed
02:00 by the Bureau of Pardons and Parole.
02:03 We want to release them,
02:05 but we have a process that we're following.
02:08 A lot of them are now entering the CIW
02:11 or the Bureau of Corrections.
02:12 They're old people,
02:15 and their penalties are life,
02:18 reclusion,
02:19 and we have a heinous crime law.
02:22 It's not that easy to process documents.
02:26 This is also the situation in the Philippines.
02:29 According to the Bureau of Corrections,
02:31 almost 2,000 over 70 years old
02:33 are being monitored because of their feelings.
02:37 If the justice secretary will ask,
02:39 the elderly will be allowed to be released,
02:42 but there are limitations.
02:45 It should not be a sexually oriented crime.
02:47 We cannot let that go because it's a crime.
02:51 You cannot let them go home
02:53 where they committed the crime.
02:55 For GMA Integrated News,
02:58 I'm Nima Raffra,
02:59 reporting for 24 Hours.
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