Quezon City 1st district Rep. Arjo Atayde is seeking hefty penalties against individuals who are caught smuggling illegal drugs and other contraband inside a jail. Quezon City 1st district Rep. Arjo Atayde (Instagram) The actor-turned-congressman filed House Bill (HB) No.4061, or the proposed Act...
A total of 11 informal settler families affected by the construction of the new Muntinlupa City Jail will get financial assistance from the Muntinlupa City government. In May last year, the Muntinlupa City government signed a memorandum of agreement with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology...
Parents who deliberately and repeatedly neglect their obligation of providing child support should be sent to jail. (Ye Jinghan/ Unsplash) Thus, said Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte, author of House Bill (HB) No.4807. Under the measure, parents with recurring offenses of failing to send...
The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) has vowed to run after its personnel who have direct or indirect links to the illegal drug deal in its jail facilities. Newly-designated BJMP National Capital Region (NCR) Regional Director chief Supt. Efren Nemeño said there would be no sacred...
PARIS, France -- Iran's judiciary authority said Monday that eight prisoners were killed in a fire that raged amid unrest inside Tehran's Evin prison, doubling the previously reported death toll. A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows damage caused by a fire...
BAGUIO CITY -- Sixty-one Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) and 69 employees of the Baguio City Jail Male Dorm were found negative for illegal drugs during a surprise random test conducted in conjunction with the greyhound operation inside the detention cells on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Photo via Zaldy...
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...
