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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 28
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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 28 -
ESTABLISHING SEVEN REGIONAL PRISONS AND CONVERTING EXISTING NATIONAL
PENAL INSTITUTIONS INTO REGULAR PRISONS AND PENAL FARMS, APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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WHEREAS, there were pending before Congress
prior to the promulgation of Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21,
1972, certain priority measures vital to the establishment and
maintenance of peace and order throughout the land; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, one of these priority measures is a bill, entitled "An Act
Establishing Seven Regional Prisons and Converting Existing National
Penal Institutions Into Regular Prisons and Penal Farms, Appropriating
Funds Therefor, And For Other Purposes; "
WHEREAS, this measure offers a positive solution to the problems bred
by our overcrowded national prisons and perpetuated by an integrated
system of confinement of various types of felons, irrespective of
whether they are incorrigibles or merely first offenders;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, this bill will reduce the incidence of escapes among the
national prisoners and promote their rehabilitation by bringing
prisoners and their families and friends closer to each
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as
Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and
pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, and
General Order No. 1, dated September 22, 1972, as amended, and in order
to effect desired changes and reforms in the social, economic and
political structures of our society, do hereby decree that House Bill
No. 4385, entitled "AN ACT ESTABLISHING SEVEN REGIONAL PRISONS AND
CONVERTING EXISTING NATIONAL PENAL INSTITUTIONS INTO REGULAR PRISONS
AND PENAL FARMS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES,"
is hereby adopted and approved, and made part of the law of the land:
Provided; That there shall be immediately established, in lieu of the
number and location of the penal establishments created thereunder, one
regional prison in each of the following provinces and area: Leyte,
Pangasinan and North-eastern Mindanao.
This decree shall take effect immediately: Provided: That amendments,
changes and modifications may be made by me and the same shall take
effect after my announcement thereof or by my duly designated
representative.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 25th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-two.
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