The bill states that all prison and detention facilities shall set up “interdiction measures necessary to combat the proliferation of contraband through the employment of modern technology, devices or units.” “This sinister activity of contraband smuggling in prison, if not properly addressed would not only undermine the safety and security of our penal facilities but also the public in general,” the lawmaker furthered. “The situation that we have right now in our correctional institution runs counter to very foundations of our criminal justice system that mandates punishment, reformation and/or rehabilitation of offenders for their crimes,” he said. “As such, this bill aims to put an end to these shenanigans by mandating all prison and detention facilities to implement an extensive contraband interdiction procedures through the employment of modern detection devices, units and technologies in order to cut the flow of prohibited objects or items inside the penal institutions,” he stated in the bill’s explanatory note.īarbers added that it is “very alarming” that prisoners still enjoy the liberty of accessing gambling materials, illegal drugs, weapons, and communication devices. The lawmaker said that the bill was born from a “series of events,” such as the discovery of thousands of contrabands, including shabu, and the use of a prisoner as a middleman in the senseless killing of veteran broadcaster Percy Lapid Mabasa. 6126, or the “Anti-Proliferation of Contraband in Prison Act of 2022,” on Monday, Nov. Robert Ace Barbers, chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, filed House Bill (HB) No.
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