Five Makati City jail inmates get life sentences for smoking cannabis

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5 Inmates Serving Time, Caught in Pot Session, Receive Life Sentences in MAKATI CITY – www.plnmedia.com

The Makati Regional Trial Court handed down life sentences to five inmates who were caught smoking pot in Makati City Jail in April 2013.

In a five-page decision, the judge in the case ordered the inmates to also pay 500,000 pesos each as damages, on top of the sentences.

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Records in the case show the five men were arrested by a member of the Intelligence Unit of the Makati Bureau of Jail Management and Protection on April 15, 2013. The five were inside the comfort room of a dormitory of Makati City Jail. 

One member of the group was to be released from prison within a week after his original charges were dismissed. He will faces life inside with the four other men.

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