ILIGAN CITY – Six Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) – three females and three males – were married at the Iligan City Jail on Friday, June 27. The ceremony was part of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Community Relations Month, said Jail Officer 2 Walter Mainit Jr., Welfare...
ILOILO CITY – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology has initiated additional administrative charges against a jail officer who not only tested positive for drug use but also suspected to have ties to the illegal drugs trade here and province of Iloilo. Jail Senior Insp. Juniven Rey Umadhay...
CEBU CITY – The newly installed regional director of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-Central Visayas (BJMP-7) vowed to get rid of the perennial problem of contraband being sneaked into prison facilities. Jail Chief Supt. Luisito Muñoz said he is aware that some Persons Deprived of...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has express its full support to the initiatives in Congress to place the control and supervision of all provincial, city and municipal jails under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP). In a statement, the CHR said that BJMP's control and supervision...
Provincial and sub-provincial jails would soon be under the management of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP). This, Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa said, will happen once the proposed Jail Integration Act is enacted into law. Sen. Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa (Senate...
Learning is for all — this was proven by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) as it conducted free digital literacy training for Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) in Mamburao District Jail. PDLs of Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Mamburao District Jail...
President Duterte has signed into law the measure lowering the minimum height requirement for applicants of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), and the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). President Duterte (File...
Penal facilities in Nueva Ecija have agreed to become direct buyers of the produce of local farmer organizations for the purpose of meeting their daily food requirements, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said on Wednesday, May 19. Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Brother John...
