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A fourth inmate may have also escaped the New Bilibid Prison.

Bureau of Corrections One of three persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) who escaped at about 1 a.m. today, Jan. 17, from the maximum-security compound of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City was killed in an encounter with the combined forces of the police and the Bureau of Corrections

New Bilibid Prison (File photo) MANILA - One of three convicts who escaped from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Maximum Security Compound early Monday morning was killed by the pursuing teams. Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) spokesperson Gabriel Chagclag said Pacifico Adlawan shot it out with lawmen when he was cornered on a creek along the Muntinlupa-Cavite Expressway near the NBP facility in Muntinlupa City. A 9mm pistol with live bullets and spent shells were recovered near the body of the 49-year...

Residents demolished a wall built on a road leading to a Department of Justice (DOJ) housing project inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Reservation in Bgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa. On Friday night, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) erected a concrete wall on a road that served as a main access poi

The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has built a wall to close a road leading to a housing project of the Department of Justice (DOJ), a public high school and university inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) Reservation in Bgy. Poblacion, Muntinlupa Friday night. Residents of Katarungan Village, a D

Published May 6, 2021, 12:00 PM Bureau of Corrections The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has beefed up its armory in the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City with firearms obtained from the Philippine National Police (PNP). In a statement, BuCor said that through a one-year agreement with the PNP, the bureau “was loaned 50 M16A1 rifles and 50 shotguns.” It said the additional firearms will be “a huge help in increasing BuCor Officers’ capability to secure the New Bilibid Pris...

Published April 2, 2021, 12:29 PM The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has mobilized anew its personnel in the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City and in all its prison farms nationwide to guard against the entry and use of cellular telephones and similar gadgets by persons deprived of liberty (PDLs). Bureau of Corrections (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) BuCor Deputy Director Gabriel P. Chaclag said on Friday, April 2, the directive to personnel is a standard operating procedure since te...

Bureau of Corrections (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Last March 12, BuCor destroyed 1,424 pieces of improvised bladed weapons; 1,786 improvised pointed weapons; 167 wooden batons; six slings; 28 improvised arrows; 129 cellular phones; and 18 wi-fi routers. In a statement, BuCor said the destroyed items were seized from prisoners from October 2020 to February 2021. “Conforming to its twin mandate of effective safekeeping and rehabilitation of persons deprived of liberty, the Bureau of Correction...

Bureau of Corrections (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “As of today, 14,437 PDLs have participated in the removal of gang tattoos and NBP (New Bilibid Prison) Maximum Security Compound is already a gang-free prison facility,” the BuCor said in a statement on Thursday. The BuCor said the removal of gang tattoos of inmates continues under its Oplan Tatak Bura. “The BuCor administration, under the supervision of Usec. Gerald Q. Bantag, actively supports and assists incarcerated persons yearning...