​Providing momentum for reforming the prison system

THE Bureau of Corrections, or BuCor, reports that inmate congestion in the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City has been reduced from 300 percent to 200 percent. At first glance, bringing down the congestion rate hardly seems an accomplishment. About 21,000 prisoners still pack the facility that was originally built in 1940 to hold 3,000. Later improvements expanded the capacity to 6,345 inmates. The reduction, however, is significant, when one considers the fact that in June 2023, Bilibid hous