MANILA, Philippines — Twenty personnel of the Bureau of Corrections have been dismissed from the service for misconduct and other offenses since BuCor Director General Gregorio Catapang assumed the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Saying it is high time for an increase, the Bureau of Corrections is urging lawmakers to increase the medical allowance for prisoners to at least P30, with BuCor chief Gregorio ...

MANILA, Philippines — While it is good that the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) is entering business ventures that would improve the agency, a lawmaker has reminded its officials that persons deprived ...

The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Wednesday announced that 2,923 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) were released from April 1 to June 11, 2025. “By facilitating the reintegration of PDLs into ...

The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) on Monday defended the banning of Fides Lim, the spokesperson of political prisoner group Kapatid, from entering its prisons and penal farms, saying it did so due to ...

Gabriela Representative Arlene Brosas says the Commission on Human Rights and the Bureau of Corrections should effectively work together to protect prison visitors from 'degrading and traumatic' ...

THE Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of the Philippines for a land exchange use involving 500 hectares owned by both parties. The MOU was ...

Heart attack has surpassed tuberculosis or TB as the leading cause of death among prisoners at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said on Thursday.