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00:00The Justice Department praised what it has done in the past two years.
00:07Luisa Erispe is live in the center of the news.
00:16I'll join one by one the successes of the Department under the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
00:25One of the achievements of the DOJ in the past two years is the rapid decrease in the number of persons deprived of liberty in prisons.
00:37According to the DOJ, from 320% in the past, the congestion rate in prisons has decreased to 240%.
00:46But because the number is still high, their programs to release PDLs continue.
00:53The sentence for the transfer of PDLs in regional prisons and penal farms has been completed.
01:0011,000 PDLs should have already been released.
01:06And in the past two years, 11,000 persons deprived of liberty have been released.
01:13That's why our congestion rate has decreased to 240%.
01:19Aside from this, the number of persons granted executive clemency by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. also doubled.
01:29There was also an 85-year-old who was granted clemency by the President and is now free.
01:37There has been a huge change in our two-year commitment to the Department of Justice.
01:46The number of persons granted executive clemency in previous years, from January to June 2022, was only 365.
01:55But in the period of July 2022 to May 2024, 3,474 persons were granted parole.
02:06In 2003, 1,684 persons were granted executive clemency.
02:14The number of persons granted executive clemency in the past was only 12.
02:21Now, it's 92.
02:23One person who was granted executive clemency is an 85-year-old political prisoner.
02:34Because of the continuous release of PDLs due to the decongestion program,
02:40DOJ also has a reformation program so that the released PDLs can quickly fit in the community,
02:47especially those who have been imprisoned for a long time.
02:51Aside from the expansion of prisons, DOJ is also reducing the number of cases filed in courts.
02:58One of these is through the signing of the new Rules of Court of DOJ,
03:03where it is no longer possible to simply file a case in court without sufficient evidence.
03:11Prosecutors and law enforcement agents need to have sufficient evidence,
03:19which we call prima facie evidence with reasonable certainty of conviction.
03:24That evidence is very high so that we will only file what we call trial-ready cases.
03:31As of now, the success rate or conviction rate of the cases filed in court is already at 93.5%.
03:39Another thing that DOJ has done in the past two years in the administration of the President
03:45is to keep the Philippines in Tier 1 when it comes to human trafficking.
03:50This means that the Philippines has a template on how to act
03:56to ensure that those working abroad are not victims of trafficking.
04:02DOJ said that this is not the first time, but the Philippines has held Tier 1 status
04:10from 180 countries around the world.
04:14Meanwhile, if there is an increase in human trafficking schemes,
04:18DOJ is also stopping the increase of illegal foreign nationals who are still staying in the Philippines.
04:25In 2022, 1,300 illegal aliens were deported.
04:30In 2023, 2,700 were deported.
04:33In 2024, 641 were deported.
04:37Most of them are Chinese nationalities and some are from Asian countries.
04:45All of us will help to deport all of those undesirable aliens
04:51and we have a plan for the protection of our citizens going abroad.
04:57The success of DOJ in the past two years
05:01is like the State of the Nation address of the President on Monday.
05:06DOJ is hoping that this will be one of the things that the President will mention in his SONA.
05:11He hopes that DOJ will continue to carry out these programs
05:18because aside from SONA, this will continue until the President's term ends.
05:25Thank you.
05:26Thank you very much, Louisa Erispe.