BuCor chief Director General Gregorio Catapang Jr. said that 493 heinous crime convicts from NBP in Muntinlupa City, including drug lords and murderers, were secretly moved to a “super maximum” facility at the SPPF in Occidental Mindoro province.
BuCor has decided to use part of SPPF, the largest penal facility in the country with 16,000 hectares of land area, to temporarily house heinous crime convicts in compliance with Republic Act No. 11928, or the “Separate Facility for Heinous Crimes Act,” which lapsed into law on July 30, 2022.
Under the law, BuCor needs to build separate facilities for convicts of heinous crimes—at Fort Magsaysay Military Reservation in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija for Luzon; Camp Macario B. Palta in Jamindan, Capiz for Visayas; and Camp Kibaritan, Kalimantan in Bukidnon for Mindanao.The NBP is currently housing more than 30,000 inmates, resulting in a congestion rate of 373 percent since it is meant to house only 6,435.
Central to BuCor’s P205-billion plan for 2023 to 2028 is the transfer of NBP to another site outside Metro Manila on top of the construction of a prison facility in 16 regions to decongest the existing seven prisons and penal farms now housing more than 51,000 inmates.
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