Quezon City Jail Male Dormitory (QCJMD) warden Supt. Michelle Bonto on Wednesday, April 6, said that they are targeting a total of 1,250 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) to get tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during its “HIV Screening, Treatment, and Counselling" activity on April...
BAGUIO CITY – The Baguio City Jail-Female Dorm (BCJ-FD) has been implementing programs meant to ensure the safety of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), including the 93 females under its care. (Photo from Rizaldy Comanda) The BCJ-FD said it is undertaking measures to enhance public safety by...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) on Thursday, March 24, conducted a “greyhound operation” or surprise inspection at the Quezon City Jail Mail Dormitory in Kamuning which resulted in the confiscation of drug paraphernalia, bladed...
Around 1,000 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in the Quezon City Jail received their Covid-19 jabs on Saturday, March 12. In a GMA News report, QC Jail Supt. Michelle Bonto said that 903 PDLs got their Astrazeneca booster shots, while 219 new inmates were also vaccinated. They were given hygiene...
Around 36 improvised bladed weapons and other contraband were seized by police during a surprise inspection of detention cells in the Quezon City Jail in Barangay Kamuning on Friday morning, Feb. 18. The search, dubbed as “Oplan Greyhound,” aims to halt and suppress the use and movement of...
Summer Ong, wife of detained businessman Linconn Ong, has appealed to Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Senator Richard Gordon to free her husband for humanitarian reasons. Senate President Tito Sotto Ong, along with siblings Mohit and Twinkle Dargani, were previously cited in contempt by the...
A total of six persons deprived of liberty (PDL) were confirmed killed, and 33 were injured, four of them seriously, after a riot broke out between two rival gangs inside the Caloocan City Jail on Monday afternoon, Jan. 10. According to a report from ABS-CBN News, the brawl involved two PDL groups...
The warden of the the Caloocan City Jail was sacked from his post over the deadly riot on Monday, Jan. 10, that left six people dead and more than 30 other inmates injured. Sacked was Jail Supt. Neil Subbi. He was replaced by Jail Supt. Lloyd Gonzaga. Supt. Xavier Solda, spokesperson of the Bureau...
The bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) has inaugurated the new Quezon City Jail Building on Wednesday, Dec. 15, a move that is part fo the bureau's efforts to improve the living condition and address the congestion woes of the inmates in its jail facilities. BJMP spokesperson in a...
No special treatment will be accorded to the two Pharmally executives who were sent to the Pasay City Jail for allegedly failing to submit the documents on the multi-billion transactions on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) face masks and face shields the company supplied to the government. This was...
Col. Cesar Paday-os, Pasay City chief, led his men in securing the transfer of Pharmally executives Linconn Ong and Mohit Dargani to the Pasay City Jail Monday afternoon, Nov. 29. Paday-os said Ong and Dargani together with Senate Sergeant-at-Arms head Manuel Parlade arrived at the Pasay City Hall...
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Metro Manila hailed the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) for providing projects that enhanced the livelihood sources of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) under its supervision. “Panaderia de Manila is one of the livelihood sources...
