Hours be­fore the end of the 105-day State of Emer­gency (SoE) yes­ter­day, 39 de­tainees were re­leased from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) at Gold­en Grove and the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa.

How­ev­er, 11 per­sons de­tained un­der the spe­cial reg­u­la­tions re­main in cus­tody as they are now fac­ing crim­i­nal charges.

Re­vo­ca­tion or­ders for the re­lease of the 39 de­tainees were signed by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les yes­ter­day morn­ing, one day af­ter re­lease or­ders were for the 11 who are to be charged, al­low­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors to take them back in­to cus­tody from the prison au­thor­i­ties.