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RA 6388 Section 79

RA 6388 Section 79

Criminal liability of custodians of illegally released prisoners before and after election.

Section 79

SEC. 79. Criminal liability of custodians of illegally released prisoners before and after election.—The Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the provincial warden, the keeper of the jail and the person or persons who are required by law to keep prisoners in their custody who shall illegally order or allow any prisoner detained in the national penitentiary, provincial, city or municipal jail to leave the premises thereof sixty days before and thirty days after the election shall, if convicted by a competent court, be made to suffer the penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period: Provided, That if the prisoner or prisoners so illegally released commit any act of intimidation, terrorism or interference, then the penalty shall be life imprisonment.

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CitationRA 6388 Section 79 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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