New Bilibid Prison Reservation (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
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
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bilibid_Prison
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Coordinates: 14°22'44"N 121°1'28"E
- New Bilibid Prison (Maximum Camp) 0.4 km
- New Bilibid Prison (Medium Camp Sampaguita) 1.3 km
- Tarlac Provincial Jail Compound 137 km
- Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm 576 km
- Davao Penal Colony 923 km
- Kota Kinabalu Prison Centre 1086 km
- Keningau Prison Department 1142 km
- Penjara W.P.Labuan 1196 km
- Jerudong Prison Department 1256 km
- Maraburong Prison 1266 km
- Sitio Mapalad 0.9 km
- Katarungan Phase II 1.2 km
- Susana Heights Estate 1.4 km
- South Green Heights Village 1.7 km
- Portofino 2.3 km
- Forresta 3.1 km
- Camella Homes Springville City 3.5 km
- Villar City 3.5 km
- Cavite 23 km
- Laguna 35 km