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President Marcos calls on JSCC to digitize services, decongest jails

By Nillicent Bautista | December 9, 2023 - 12:00am

President Marcos on Wednesday called on the Justice Sector Coordinating Council (JSCC) to streamline and digitize its frontline...

Headlines

67.5% ng preso sa Pilipinas siksikan; COA naghain ng rekomendasyon

June 23, 2023 - 9:37am

Lumalabas na lagpas sa kalahati ng 478 na kulungan sa buong Pilipinas ang siksikan na sa dami ng inmates — dahilan para...

Bansa

Philippine jails overcrowded by 367% — COA

By Cristina Chi | June 22, 2023 - 6:48pm

The Commission on Audit has found that the country’s jails are overcrowded by 367%, noting that slow court action has...

Headlines

Lawmakers push for more penal facilities

By Sheila Crisostomo | June 11, 2023 - 12:00am

Underscoring the “substandard and inadequate” conditions in penal facilities in the country, three lawmakers have...

Headlines

Galvez urged to move PDLs up in vaccination priority list

By Bella Perez-Rubio | June 8, 2021 - 4:50pm

A lawmaker on Tuesday urged the official leading the government's coronavirus inoculation program to move up the priority...

Headlines

EDITORIAL - Yes, do something about the jails

October 1, 2020 - 12:00am

Cebu 3rd District Rep. Pablo John Garcia recently filed a bill seeking to establish a way to monitor detainees as a way to...

Freeman Opinion

UN agencies call for closure of drug detention centers amid COVID-19 pandemic

By Bella Perez-Rubio | June 1, 2020 - 1:06pm

"Among the groups particularly at risk of contracting the virus are people in compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation...

Headlines

Sex inside prisons, schools, convents, churches and workplaces

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | March 12, 2020 - 12:00am

Sex happens anywhere and anytime, in jails, in schools, in convents, seminaries, and in workplaces, whether inside the boardroom or in the toilets and dormitories.

Freeman Opinion

DOH orders disease outbreak watch in jails

By Sheila Crisostomo | March 17, 2019 - 12:00am

The Department of Health (DOH) has ordered its experts to closely monitor all jails in Metro Manila to prevent disease outbreaks due to the acute water shortage in parts of the metropolis.

Nation

55 detainees have died in overcrowded MPD jails since July 2016

By Marc Jayson Cayabyab | June 28, 2018 - 12:00am

At least 55 inmates have died due to overcrowding in detention facilities of the Manila Police District since July 2016, an...

Nation