THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) appealed to the House of Representatives for a higher 2025 budget for the food and medicine of inmates.

A presentation by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) before the House Committee on Appropriations showed that the subsistence allowance for 182,556 inmates will cost P4.664 billion at P70 per inmate daily.

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