Some inmates at New Bilibid Prison allowed to vote on May 13
By Alex Austria, Jaymee T. Gamil
For the first time, inmates at the national penitentiary will be allowed to vote in the May 13 elections.
For the first time, inmates at the national penitentiary will be allowed to vote in the May 13 elections.
All 13 inmates who bolted out of jail in Negros Occidental last week have been recaptured, police said.
Thirteen inmates, most of who are facing murder charges, bolted out of jail in Negros Occidental Wednesday, police said Thursday.
Saying public safety and public interest are at stake, Senator Gregorio Honasan intends to fight the President’s “ill-advised” veto on the bill to repeal the height requirement for police officers, jail guards, and firefighters.
Policemen, firemen and jail guards should possess the necessary physical attributes to do their job, and that includes having the right height.
Over 1,820 inmates were committed in the National Capital Region while over 1,590 inmates were released as of September 2012, according to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas on Wednesday ordered another investigation of the death of a witness in the murder of broadcaster and environmentalist Gerry Ortega in a jail in Quezon, saying now that he found unbelievable jail officials’ story that Dennis Aranas killed himself. In a press conference, Roxas said he ordered the new investigation [...]
THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Negros Oriental has secured a P500,000 funding for the construction of infirmary facilities in the province. Due to the increase of tuberculosis cases in district jails, provincial jail administrator Rosalina Malahay said her agency was able to secure funding from the Department of Health (DOH) to [...]
The blame game has started over the jailbreak last Tuesday at the Maguindanao provincial jail here, in which 11 prisoners, including a notorious bandit leader, escaped from the prison.
Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo called Tuesday for the transfer of management of jails under local government units to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) following the escape of 11 prisoners from the Maguindanao Provincial Jail in Cotabato City.
The camp of Andal Ampatuan Sr. on Monday appealed to have him transferred to a private hospital from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Medical Center (formerly V. Luna).
The country’s chief jailer spent his birthday Saturday spilling some blood. Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Director Rosendo M. Dial celebrated his 53rd birthday by leading jail officers in a bloodletting.
Zaldy Ampatuan was nursing a puncture in his right groin as a result of an angiogram, and his lawyers tried to have him stay for six hours more at Philippine Heart Center. But they could not pull it off. The lawyers on Friday failed to comply with a supposed requirement that they personally give the [...]
