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The following is a list of prisons [a] in the Philippines. [1] List. Bureau of Corrections national prisons ... Prison: 800 [8] Iloilo Provincial Jail: Pototan ...
Defunct prisons in the Philippines (1 P) N. New Bilibid Prison (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Prisons in the Philippines"
The prison was placed under the Bureau of Prisons and receive prisoners in Mindanao. [8] The Correctional Institution for Women was founded on November 27, 1929, by virtue of Act No. 3579 as the first and only prison for women in the Philippines. [8] Later, on January 21, 1932, the bureau opened the Davao Penal Colony in Southern Mindanao. [8]
The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila is the main insular prison designed to house the prison population of the Philippines. [2] It is maintained by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) under the Department of Justice (DOJ). As of October 2022, the NBP housed 29,204 inmates, nearly five times its intended capacity of 6,345. [1]
Manila City Jail as seen from the Line 1–Line 2 walkway. The 2.4-hectare (5.9-acre) Manila City Jail has the capacity to house 1,100 inmates. [1] [10] [12]Operating at an average of 463.6% occupancy, detention centers in the Philippines are the second most overcrowded in the world. [14]
Inmates of the New Bilibid Prison (16 P) L. Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the Philippines (8 P) M. People convicted of murder by the Philippines (4 P)
Prisons in the Philippines (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Penal system in the Philippines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The agency was created on January 2, 1991, by virtue of Republic Act No. 6975, also known as the Department of the Interior and Local Government Act of 1990. [4] Prior to its creation, the Office of Jail Management and Penology of then Philippine Constabulary - Integrated National Police was the agency handling the local penology of the Philippines. [4]