Section 79Sec./Art. 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.