New Bilibid Prison

Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag has assured he is open for any Senate inquiry over the deaths of persons deprived of liberty (PDL) at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City.

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra has assured that he will look into the deaths of persons deprived of liberty (PDL) at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City.

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Wednesday (Oct. 9) admitted it will be a challenge for Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag to get rid of bribery at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).

The Special Action Force (SAF) contingent deployed to secure the maximum-security compound at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, was replaced on Tuesday amid the ongoing reform programs of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor).

Senator Leila De Lima still hasn't gotten over Senator Richard Gordon's decision to invite two of the witnesses in her drug trafficking case to the Senate hearing on the alleged anomalies inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) last month.

An inmate at the New Bilibid Prison revealed that a number of prisoners die there yearly because the food they eat lacks nutrients.

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said he is open to Senate proposals to erect prisons exclusive to heinous crimes inmates.

Chinese drug lords are still able to control the drug trade in the country even if they are detained at the heavily guarded New Bilibid Prison (NBP), former Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection (PNP-CIDG) chief…

Three Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) officials on Wednesday (Sept. 18) have asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to issue a writ of habeas corpus to compel the Senate release them from detention.

ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Niña Taduran on Monday proposed a radical solution to retake the New Bilibid Prison from detained powerful drug lords who continue to lord it over the national penitentiary: Exile them to the West Philippine Sea.

Party-list Cong. Niña Taduran (ACT-CIS) said convicted high-profile drug personalities should be transferred to some of the country’s occupied territories in South China Sea (SCS) as these inmates enjoy special treatment inside the national…

Senator Leila De Lima has proposed merging the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and provincial jail services to institute reforms in the country’s prison system.

Senator Panfilo Lacson denied Sunday (September 15) that the Senate invited witnesses against Senator Leila De Lima to the hearing on the corruption inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) to pin her down for alleged wrongdoing.

The inmates at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) have become so powerful that they— not the government— call the shots inside the national penitentiary, Senator Panfilo Lacson said Sunday (September 15).

Senator Panfilo Lacson has proposed a joint venture between the government and private sector to develop the property on which the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) stands to raise funds for the construction of regional penitentiaries.