Diario Libre reports today that 700 of the estimated 18,000 prisoners held in the nation’s jails are between 60 and 84 years of age. The Penal Code contains clauses that provide for their release, however, and a movement has begun to seek the liberation of these senior citizens. The law establishes that upon reaching the age of 60, the convicts should be remanded to correction houses. Unfortunately, however, correction houses do not exist in the Dominican penitentiary system.