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Let’s hope it can actually be done before another inmate records a music video or builds an armory in there.
“Malacañang vowed to end all illegal activities in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) following the discovery of luxurious facilities and rampant gun and drug smuggling in the national penitentiary,” report Delon Porcalla and Edu Punay in The Philippine Star.
Meanwhile, Press Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. added that “the smuggling of firearms (among other things) inside the national penitentiary bothered President Noynoy Aquino.”
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda stated, “Essentially, the conditions that we found in the New Bilibid Prison is really unacceptable. Those things should never have been there in the first place. Therefore, (Justice) Secretary Leila de Lima is going to undertake all measures and ensure that these things should not happen again,” he told a news briefing.
So far, as the report indicated, “19 inmates were transferred from the maximum security compound to the NBI due to their alleged involvement in the drug trade.”
De Lima also said that “more convicted drug lords would be transferred from the NBP for alleged illicit operations inside the penitentiary.”
“We are currently evaluating the list for the possible second wave of raids,” De Lima said.
Photo: Bureau of Corrections website
