HONG KONG, China -- Hong Kong jailed five speech therapists for sedition on Saturday over a series of illustrated children's books that portrayed the city's democracy supporters as sheep defending their village from wolves. A supporter of a pro-democracy union waves at a prison van at the Wanchai...
Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman shared on Saturday, Aug. 27, a sad turn of events that took place as he tried to visit his friend, former Senator Leila de Lima in jail on her 63rd birthday. Former Senator Leila de Lima (Facebook) Lagman, former Supreme Court (SC) Justice and Ombudsman Conchita...
ILOILO CITY – More than 100 hungry inmates staged a noise barrage Wednesday, Aug. 24, atop the roof of the Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Pototan, Iloilo to demand enough food and the relief of the jail warden. INMATES of the Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Pototan, Iloilo protest the insufficient...
A total of 129 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Cebu City Jail Female Dorm graduated from the alternative learning system (ALS), the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said on Thursday, Aug. 18. The ALS is a parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides opportunities...
YANGON, Myanmar -- A Myanmar junta court jailed Aung San Suu Kyi for six years for corruption on Monday, a source close to the case said, taking the ousted leader's prison time to 17 years. In this file handout photo taken on May 24, 2021 and released by Myanmar's Ministry of Information on May 26...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Instead of throwing used tarpaulins into garbage, inmates have created them into fashionable and reusable handbags and aprons, thereby becoming their livelihood while detained at the Tabaco City District Jail in Tabaco City in this province. Fashionable handbags made of used...
CEBU CITY -- A 28-year-old worker of a food manufacturing company in Compostela town, northern Cebu was arrested on suspicion that he stole a pack of chlorine worth P61. Florito Puyos Pelit, a resident of Barangay Don Gregorio Antigua, Borbon, Cebu, was caught allegedly trying to sneak out the...
At least 93 percent of the inamtes under the custody of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) have already been vaccinated against the Covid-19. JMP spokesperson Supt. Xavier Solda said the figure translates to a total of 122,777 out of the 131,708 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos, Jr. said on Wednesday, Aug. 10, that he will initiate random drug testing in all the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) facilities. And if any of the BJMP personnel or persons deprived of...
Some 128 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) in the Quezon City Jail Female Dormitory (QCJFD) have completed elementary and junior high school under the Alternative Learning System (ALS) program. The QCJFD said that the graduation and moving-up ceremony was held inside the facility on Saturday, Aug....
A Filipino domestic helper in Singapore, who reportedly pleaded guilty for threatening to leak explicit photos of her male employer, will serve her jail time there before facing deportation, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday, July 20. "She will serve her sentence at Changi Prison,"...
Former actor, model and Southeast Asian Games gold medalist David Bunevacz is facing serious jail time. Reports said he has pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud relating to a scam at the US Attorney's Office in the Central District of California where his...
