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                    [Title] => Penal code revision pushed in Senate
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Senate President Franklin Drilon is seeking to amend the over 80-year-old penal code of the country to help decongest the jail facilities nationwide.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1526426 [AuthorName] => Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1308050 [Title] => Lawmaker seeks review of Revised Penal Code [Summary] =>

A lawmaker is seeking a review of the 84-year-old Revised Penal Code of the Philippines to further strengthen the criminal justice system.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1286011 [Title] => CV ikatulo nga daghan og Insular Prisoners [Summary] =>

Ang Central Visayas ikatulo sa tanang rehiyon sa nasud nga labing daghan og “insular prisoners” nga nabilanggo karon sa New Bilibid Prisons sa Muntinlupa ug ubang nasudnong bilanggoan.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097538 [AuthorName] => Rene U. Borromeo [SectionName] => Banat Balita [SectionUrl] => balita [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 853377 [Title] => Libel law covers print; why not cyber media? [Summary] =>

SACRED CYBERSPACE: It will not be fair if print and broadcast media are subject — as they are now — to the libel sanctions of the Revised Penal Code while others who maliciously malign persons in the Internet are exempted from similar prosecution.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135304 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 693452 [Title] => DOJ probes bribery for penal colony transfers in Bilibid [Summary] =>

After investigating preferential treatment for high-profile inmates at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), the Department of Justice (DOJ) is now looking into another alleged anomaly at the national penitentiary.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 530298 [Title] => Quibbling in Copenhagen dangerous [Summary] =>

I can’t understand why there are still some people who are quibbling about the danger posed by climate change on the planet.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 21191 [Title] => Lawmaker pushes for 10-year jail term for poll law offenders [Summary] =>

Albay Rep. Edcel C. Lagman is pushing for a ten-year imprisonment for any person committing elections offenses or acts prohibited under the Omnibus Election Code thru violence, coercion, intimidation, and force or threat.

In filing House Bill No. 1882, Lagman sought to uphold the people’s democratic right to vote and be voted for public office and to promote the rule of law.
[DatePublished] => 2007-10-15 16:29:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 397343 [Title] => BuCor sends more security men to Davao penal farm [Summary] => DAVAO CITY – The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has sent at least 20 more security personnel to the Davao Prison and Penal Farm in Brauli Dujali, Davao del Norte after the Easter Sunday raid by New People’s Army rebels on its armory.

The additional security personnel now beef up the penal farm’s 164-man security force.

Venancio Tesoro, the penal farm’s supervisor, said the Philippine National Police has also deployed at least seven members of the Regional Mobile Group to help secure the perimeter of the prison facility.
[DatePublished] => 2007-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 326067 [Title] => Council rejects measure vs. reckless drivers [Summary] => The city council committee on laws rejected a proposed resolution penalizing reckless drivers in vehicular accidents who abandon or fail to give assistance to their victims.

Councilor Edgardo Labella, the committee chairman, reported to the council that his panel recommends the rejection of the proposed measure of councilor Hilario Davide III because it is already a duplication of an existing law.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) ) )

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