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BuCor finalizing IRR on separate facility for heinous crime convicts

Job Manahan and Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 08 07:24 PM

BuCor's public information chief Julie Taguiam said they expect the implementing rules and regulations to be out 'in 90 days.' Read more »

Remulla seeks to reform Bilibid, relocate some inmates

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 18 12:54 AM

Justice Sec. Jesus Crispin Remulla on Wednesday underscored the need to reform the New Bilibid Prisons. Read more »

New facilities key to stopping syndicate activities in PH jails: BuCor

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 05 03:42 PM

Building new jail facilities and improving existing ones may help stop syndicate activities in prisons across the country, a BuCor official said. Read more »

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 »