Lawyer appeals for release of terminally ill political prisoner

Tetch Torres-Tupas 06/20/2024

MANILA, Philippines — A lawyer has appealed to the Bohol Court to release a terminally ill political prisoner on humanitarian grounds. Atty. Kristian Lora of the Visayas Community Law Center filed an urgent motion before the Carmen,…

Amid Ukraine war, a wedding proposal

Agence France Presse 01/07/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian military doctor has become engaged to a soldier she served with, their commander said on Thursday, a day after she was released from nearly two years as a prisoner of Russia. The…

Probe begins on PDL jumping off jail building

Paul Lauro 05/31/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – An investigation is now being conducted to shed light as to why a person deprived of liberty (PDL) died after allegedly jumping off a building inside the Cebu City Jail on Tuesday, May…

Jailbreak in Cebu City: One recaptured, one killed, one still at large 

Morexette Marie B. Erram, Paul Lauro 10/26/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines—A detainee was killed after he and two others escaped from police detention on Monday dawn, October 26, 2020, here.  The Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) confirmed that three detainees of the Mabolo Police Station…

Arrested drug peddler claims his ‘boss’ is a Cebu City Jail prisoner

Benjie B. Talisic 12/09/2018

  CEBU CITY — Police tonight arrested an alleged drug peddler who claimed that his boss is an inmate of the Cebu City Jail. Chief Inspector Kith Alen Andaya, precinct commander of the Punta Princesa Police Station,…

Masses at CPDRC, visits to continue

Izobelle T. Pulgo 04/12/2017

THERE won’t be any Holy Week programs to be held this week at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) except for Masses on Black Saturday and Easter Sunday. Acting CPDRC warden Roberto Legaspi said visitation…

HOOKED ON DRUGS

Nestle L. Semilla 04/04/2017

Cebu City officials are now tracing what caused the alarming number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases inside the Cebu City Jail, even as they are inclined to believe that needle-sharing among users of nubain, a restricted…

Shabu courier arrested inside Lapu-Lapu City Jail

Norman V. Mendoza 03/22/2017

ABOUT a week after Danao City police intelligence reports pointed to the Lapu-Lapu City Jail as a major source of the city’s illegal drug supply, a search on one of the jail’s visitors on Wednesday yielded a…

Lapu jail guards arrest high school student for sneaking in drugs

Norman V. Mendoza 03/22/2017

A high school student was arrested by jailguards of the Lapu-Lapu City Jail after he attempted to sneak in a pack of suspected shabu (methamphetamine) in the facility at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Remerl Pojas, 20, of…

Check yields notebook with drug buyers’ names, shabu

Nestle L. Semilla 03/18/2017

At least five grams of shabu worth at least P30,000, nine cellular phones, assorted drug paraphernalia, bladed weapon and notebooks that contained some names were seized in a raid inside Cebu City Jail past 1 a.m. on…

Overcrowded CPRDC starts to accept inmates

Izobelle T. Pulgo 03/07/2017

Considering that municipal jails are also getting overcrowded, Gov. Hilario Davide III said that they have started to accept inmates inside the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) starting in January of this year, provided that…

Skills program for inmates of Cebu City Jail launched

Nestle L. Semilla 03/07/2017

AT LEAST 90 inmates of the Cebu City Jail together with their beneficiaries will avail of the skills development program offered by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Central Visayas (BJMP-7). The 91 inmates witnessed…

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