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Submissions on proposed changes to the prison system which will help decide everything from how people are assigned to a jail to how they are treated close tomorrow.

Bureau of Corrections The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has advised applicants for corrections officers to submit their documents personally to its headquarters in Muntinlupa City or to the offices of its prison facilities. It said it had stopped accepting applications through online or courier

In the final days of the 115th Congress, lawmakers took a significant first step toward meaningful criminal justice reform by passing the First Step Act. This new law provides federal corrections and sentencing reforms based on successful conservative state policies that have proven to help lower recidivism and reduce crime.

Out of control inmates have caused chaos at Waikato’s Spring Hill prison, prompting a jail-wide lockdown, and landing at least twenty prisoners in segregat

Bureau of Corrections The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) needs 1,594 personnel for deployment as corrections officers, corrections technical officers, and non-uniformed employees. In an announcement, BuCor said it has 6,430 plantilla positions of which 4,836 are filled up as of last July 31.

Supreme Court (SC) The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed a Sandiganbayan ruling that ordered the transfer to the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City of two former deputy immigration commissioners and a retired police officer found guilty of plunder and graft by the anti-graft court. In

THE Supreme Court (SC) has allowed the transfer to the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa City of two fraternity brothers of ex-President Rodrigo Duterte and a retired policeman, who were sentenced to 50 years imprisonment by the Sandiganbayan last year after being found guilty of plunder and graft in…

The Supreme Court has upheld a 2021 Sandiganbayan decision ordering the transfer to the New Bilibid Prison of former Bureau of Immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles and retired policeman Wenceslao Sombero Jr. after finding them guilty of plunder and graft.

Muntinlupa Mayor Ruffy Biazon said the city government should be consulted and must be part of the planning regarding the development of the vast New Bilibid Prison (NBP) land located in Barangay Poblacion. “My position on NBP land development is that the local government should not only be consul

THE Government will be taking a zero-tolerance approach to the smuggling of contraband into prison facilities, says minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, Zavia Mayne. Mayne, who...