QUITO, Ecuador—Ecuador’s security forces on Sunday (Monday in Manila) took back control of several prisons that had fallen into the hands of gang members,...
Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan of Bicol Saro Partylist lamented the deterioration of the country’s penal institutions into “breeding grounds of despair and recidivism.”
The lawmaker...
Prisoners at a penitentiary in the Ecuadoran city of Cuenca are holding hostage 50 guards and seven police officers, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said...
DAVAO City Rep. Paolo Duterte and Benguet City Rep, Eric Yap wants additional penal penitentiary facilities under the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to decongest...
Overcrowding has been a perennial problem in jails in the Philippines, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday.
ICRC’s regional director for...
Philippine National Police chief Gen. Camilo Cascolan has ordered a probe into the alleged continuing illegal drug operations inside prisons.
“I have directed the PDEG...
By Dmytro Gorshkov and Oleksandr Savochenko
Around 20 men are crammed into the foul-smelling cell, where cockroaches wander across the walls and barred windows.
This is...
A new battalion of officers from the Philippine National Police - Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) is guarding the national penintentiary.
PNP Chief Ronald dela Rosa...
Visitations for inmates have been prohibited at this time at the Metro Manila District Jail in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City.
This comes, following the...
By Yury Fedotov
Violent extremism today presents a chilling challenge to the world’s prison correction communities.
Anis Amri, shot dead before Christmas by Italian police after...
Operatives of PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and PNP Regional Office raided the Abuyog penal colony in Leyte.
One inmate was killed as...
