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Pabuya para sa pagkakaaresto ng 2 pugante, isinusulong

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 07:44 PM

Kapwa nahatulan ang dalawa ng reclusion perpetua o hanggang 40-taong pagkakakulong. Read more »

House bill wants separate jail facility for high-level offenders

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 01 03:46 PM

The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved on final reading a bill that seeks to establish a separate facility for high-level offenders. Read more »

PNP to conduct post-riot clearing operations in Bilibid

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 03:12 PM

Members of the Philippine National Police K-9 team wait for the go-signal to conduct clearing operations at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City on Monday, hours after a riot broke out in the national penitentiary. Read more »

PSPs, pocket wifi, smart watches: BuCor eyes sanctions over smuggled contraband

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 14 11:22 AM

The Bureau of Corrections is set to impose disciplinary action against inmates for smuggling various items in the state penitentiary including laptops, cellular phones, smart watches and pocket wifi units over a 5-year period.  Read more »

Senate probe sa pagkamatay ng high-profile inmates 'alang-alang sa transparency' - Hontiveros

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 23 12:54 PM

MAYNILA – Dapat na maimbestigahan ng Senado ang umano’y pagkamatay ng high-profile drug lords sanhi umano ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) sa loob ng New Bilibid Prisons para matanggal ang anumang haka-haka tungkol dito, ayon kay Senador Risa Hontiveros. Read more »

Body-switching in Bilibid? NBP hospital says different unit assigned to identify COVID dead

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 22 01:04 PM

MANILA – A different Bureau of Corrections unit, and not the New Bilibid Prison Hospital, is assigned to identify inmates who allegedly died due to the novel coronavirus, the NBP Hospital director said Wednesday.  Read more »

'Like planting a time bomb': Transfer of prisoners with COVID-19 to Bilibid denounced

Bianca Dava, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 24 04:12 PM

MANILA - Relatives of inmates at the New Bilibid Prison denounced the transfer of 18 inmates from the Correctional Institution for Women who tested positive for COVID-19 to the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City.   Read more »

3 prisoners killed including inmate who ran amuck inside Bilibid

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 25 04:33 PM

Three convicts serving their respective sentence at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City died early Wednesday morning after one of them ran amuck, a Justice official said. Read more »

15 cops who smuggled contraband into Bilibid face charges

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 22 10:13 AM

MANILA - The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) is set to file grave misconduct charges against 15 cops who allegedly smuggled contraband inside the New Bilibid Prisons. Read more »

Ex-CIDG chief confirms 'agaw bato' scheme, will name cops in drug recycling

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 19 12:03 PM

MANILA - Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong on Thursday said he will reveal names of top officials involved in the recycling of illegal drugs in an executive session of the Senate. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 18, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 19 01:09 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

1 million documents: Keeping watch on prisoners' carpeta

Joseph Vidal, Senate PRIB
Posted at Sep 18 12:02 PM

Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) personnel keep a tight watch round-the-clock on more than one million documents of 46,000 plus convicts released since 2010. Read more »

'Bato' suspects notorious inmates abuse hospital passes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 10 04:19 PM

At one point, Dela Rosa said he moved a group of inmates to a building in Bilibid from a hospital where they were running illegal drug activities and other crimes, Dela Rosa told ANC. Read more »

Bilibid's hospital ward being used as drug selling area: Go

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 10 03:54 PM

Convicted drug lords posing as sick inmates inside the New Bilibid Prisons use its hospital’s ward as a venue for their illegal drug trade, Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go said Tuesday.   Read more »

DOJ orders probe into alleged 'hospital pass for sale' at Bilibid

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 10 02:58 PM

The Department of Justice has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate the supposed sale of hospital passes to inmates of the national penitentiary. Read more »

Panelo, irerekomendang ipaputol ang signal sa loob ng Bilibid

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 09 05:15 PM

MAYNILA - Madali ang nakikitang solusyon ni Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo sa problema sa mga ilegal na transaksyon sa loob ng New Bilibid Prisons. Read more »

'Bad blood' with Faeldon foiled PDEA plan for Bilibid office, inmates' drug test

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 05 03:34 PM

PDEA had planned to put up a satellite office with canine units inside Bilibid, says its chief Aaron Aquino.  Read more »

My friends continue to live upright lives in prison. They deserve to benefit from the GCTA Law

Raymund Narag
Updated as of Aug 28 10:39 AM

An ex-detainee who made great friendships in prison writes about the possibility of carving out a respectable life within the confines of bilibid. And why his friends who continue to contribute to a more dignified life for their co-inmates deserve to benefit from the GCTA Law—whose existence might have been threatened by all the noise surrounding Antonio Sanchez's release. Read more »