Tag: jail congestion

Iloilo City—The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Western Visayas is urgently seeking additional jail facilities and guards to address the alarming...

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. on Monday expressed optimism that the perennial problem of overcrowding in jails...

Congestion rate as regards the number of persons deprived of liberty in jails nationwide, or the so-called PDLs, has gone down, according to the...

Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said the Philippine government is seriously addressing the problem of jail congestion with what he described as “outside-the-box-solutions” to...

President Rodrigo Duterte says the government will be shelling out around P3 billion to build 60 new jail facilities to address the overcrowding in...

WHEN President Duterte launched his bloody war against illegal drugs, I said that the killing of drug lords and drug pushers would only be...