Cebu provincial policemen deployed to secure CPDRC

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/05/2017

Twenty police officers from the Provincial Public Safety Company (PPSC) of the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) will be deployed to the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) on Monday to augment security in the facility.…

‘Way dalaw ug way corruption, way lusot!’

Lloyd Suarez 03/05/2017

Ang labing epektibo nga himion ni Governor Junjun Davide sa Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) ug mga warden sa lainlaing mga jail facilities aron epektibo ang kampanya sa illegal drugs mao nga wa nay itugot…

CPDRC RAID

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Nestle L. Semilla 03/05/2017

CHR to evaluate findings; may conduct more interviews THE Commission on Human Rights in Central Visayas (CHR-7) has interviewed at least six inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) following reports that they were…

CHR PROBE

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/03/2017

Concerns that stripping naked CPDRC inmates violates human rights come to fore Concerns over the stripping naked of inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) during a raid and herding them to a quadrangle…

Invasive search

Editorial 03/03/2017

A photo of prisoners squatting butt naked on the ground during an Operation Greyhound launched by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) that went viral on social media…

Ruiz: Prisoner held keys to CPDRC jail cells

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/02/2017

BELIEVE it or not, one of the inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) was in possession of the keys that open the jail’s detention cells. Yogi Filemon Ruiz, director of the Philippine Drug…

Naked prisoners in Cebu jail cause uproar

Inquirer.net, Nestle L. Semilla 03/02/2017

Photos showing hundreds of prisoners in a Philippine jail sitting naked while being searched for contraband have triggered accusations of further rights abuses in President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs. The inmates of the Cebu Provincial…

Less violent, more surgical

Editorial 03/02/2017

The discovery of nearly half a million pesos’ worth of cash along with shabu and other contraband items at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) could not have come at an opportune time for the…

New CPDRC acting warden suspends jail visits

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/02/2017

Newly-installed officer-in-charge of the Cebu Provincial Detension and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) Roberto “Bobby” Legaspi said that “dalaw” inside the facility is temporarily suspended until the Provincial Public Security Company (PPSC) team, which he requested, will be deployed…

LEGASPI IN, MACATO OUT

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/01/2017

The Cebu provincial jail, already burdened with almost double the number of inmates it is supposed to accommodate, yesterday lost its warden as it continues to be wracked with controversy over how it is being managed. In…

JAIL RAID YIELDS DRUGS, PHONES

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Izobelle T. Pulgo 02/28/2017

Inmates were sound asleep when shouts and banging at the iron gates woke them up at around 1 a.m. Tuesday. Clad in full battle gear, agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) raided…

3 Cebu City Jail guards relieved

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/28/2017

THREE jail guards of the Cebu City Jail had been relieved after they were found to have allowed inmates to use mobile phones inside the jail. The jail guards, whose names were withheld from the media, are…

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