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New Bilibid Prison Reservation (Muntinlupa)

Philippines / Southern Tagalog / San Pedro / Muntinlupa
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The New Bilibid Prison is the Philippines' maximum security penitentiary that houses not only death convicts and inmates sentenced to life imprisonment, but also those with numerous pending cases, multiple convictions, and sentences of more than 20 years.

To call this facility "New" is now a misnomer as its construction started in 1936 with a budget of one million pesos. It is called new because the original maximum security prison in the Philippines prior to this was located in Manila, the Old Bilibid Prison. But due to Manila's increasing population, criminality and growing urbanization at that time, the Commonwealth Act No.67 was enacted thereby transferring all the prisoners of the Old Bilibid to this new penitentiary in Muntinlupa which was then part of Rizal.

Also called NBP or simply "Bilibid," the institution originally had a total land area of 587 hectares (or 1,451 acres). In recent years, however, 104 hectares (or 257 acres) were converted into a housing project of the Department of Justice.

The New Bilibid Prison is maintained and secured by the Bureau of Corrections (or BuCor or "Kawanihan ng mga Bilangguan" in the vernacular) which in turn is under the Department of Justice.

Official Website of the Bureau of Corrections: www.bucor.gov.ph/home.html

Photo gallery of the New Bilibid Prison: www.bucor.gov.ph/gallery/gallery%203.html
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Coordinates:   14°22'44"N   121°1'28"E
This article was last modified 9 years ago