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New Bilibid Prison: Muntinlupa, Metro Manila: 1940: Prison: 6,345 [3] Correctional Institution for Women: Mandaluyong, Metro Manila: 1929: Women's prison: 1,008 [3] Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm: Puerto Princesa, Palawan: 1904: Penal colony: 675 [3] [4] Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm: Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro: 1955: Penal colony: 994 [3] [5 ...
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]
Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) is a jail facility in Cebu, in Cebu Province, Philippines. It is a maximum-security prison with a capacity for 1,600 inmates. [2] The prison became well known for its rehabilitation program in 2005-2010, based on a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates.
The prison first opened on a 18-hectare (44-acre) property on February 14, 1931. Previously, women inmates used to be held at the Old Bilibid Prison. [4] [5]When the Philippines used to execute death penalty convicts, female inmates condemned to death were held at CIW. [6]
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]
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]
Pedro Paje was the Iwahig Penal Colony Superintendent during the Japanese occupation. The colony had about 1,700 prisoners and 45 guards and employees during WWII.At the same time, Paje led a secret Palawan Underground Force, which established communications with Palawan's guerrilla network, supplying them with food and medicine.
Three quarters of the prison population belonged to one gang or another, among Bahala Na, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Batang City Jail, or Commando gangs. These gangs marked out their jurisdiction inside the prison through murals. [3] By 2021, the prison population had decreased to 3,184, which still amounted to a congestion rate of 1,066%. [5]