MANILA, Philippines — Decongestion of the New Bilibid Prison from the current 250 percent to 200 percent is among the top priorities of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) for 2025. BuCor chief Dir.

REPORTER AT LARGE, about the freeing of prisoners interned at the old Spanish penitentiary of Bilibid, Manila. Our intelligence knew nothing about the fact that 465 civilian persons had been ...

For this year, Catapang said the bureau’s budget is P9.2 billion, with P288 million allocated for the actual transfer of PDLs from Bilibid to other BuCor-operated penal facilities.