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Patiently waiting

A cat perches on a narrow surface behind as some Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) wait for visitors for at the Manila City Jail...

Second chances

Aboitiz Construction signs a partnership with Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Region 10 to provide employment opportunities and rehabilitation support to persons deprived...

Acosta: PAO, BJMP partnership will help PDLs return to normal life

THE Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) on Monday lauded the importance of a partnership with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to help...

Decongesting our jails

Would you believe that some of our detention facilities, particularly in the National Capital Region, are so overcrowded by those facing trial for various...

5k inmates to be freed before Xmas

The government is set to release at least 5,000 inmates, or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in time for Christmas, as announced by the...

CJ vows fast release of cleared PDLs

Chief Justice (CJ) Alexander G. Gesmundo has assured an expeditious review of appeals in criminal cases and the speedy release of judgments of acquittal...

Freedom regained

Bureau of Corrections director general Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr., (second from right), assisted by Public Attorney’s Office chief Persida Acosta, hands over certificates of...

Warden’s birthday gifts

Bureau of Corrections director general Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr, pushes one of ten brand new wheelchairs with a sick and elderly inmate on it....

‘Tulong Pangkabuhayan’

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with Bureau of Corrections Director General Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr. hand a certificate of eligibility to Arnold Cabrera, one of...

PAO working to decongest women’s jails

To decongest jails in Metro Manila, the Public Attorney’s Office has resumed regular visitations at the Quezon City Jail Female Dormitory. “Through this, our lawyers...

Freedom

Joselino Tana one of the 168 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) who have been released from prison prays before departing from the Bureau of...

Jail congestion drops to half, BJMP reports

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...

Catapang to reshuffle all prisons, penal farms personnel

Newly-appointed Bureau of Corrections chief Gregorio Catapang Jr. said he will reshuffle all personnel in the agency’s prisons and penal farms. “There will be a...

Freedom regained

Twenty-five inmates or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) receive their certificates of release from the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City, handed out...
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