The Philippines has unveiled a new jail that may soon house powerful legislators and officials implicated in a massive ...

Filipino inmates stand on top of the roof of a prison building as they protest in Pototan town, Iloilo province, central Philippines on Wednesday Aug. 24, 2022. About 100 inmates in an overcrowded ...

BACOLOD, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police say 13 inmates, some accused of murder, have escaped from a provincial jail in a central province using a smuggled gun to disarm guards. Police Senior ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 200 inmates complaining of hunger and squalid conditions escaped from a Philippine provincial jail in an eastern province that was devastated by a monster storm in ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police killed three detained militants linked to the Islamic State group after they staged a jail rampage Sunday that saw a police officer stabbed and a former ...

KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 160 inmates escaped after suspected Muslim rebels attacked a jail in the southern Philippines before dawn Wednesday, and at least six people were shot dead as ...

Jail personnel and inmates in Central Visayas are now subject to stricter and more frequent drug testing. This comes as the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Regional Office VII (BJMPRO-VII) ...

Nine prisoners were killed when fire ripped through the psychiatric ward of a provincial jail, Philippine authorities said Friday, adding the facility was operating at more than double its capacity.

MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine police killed three detained militants linked to the Islamic State group after they staged a jail rampage Sunday that saw a police officer stabbed and a former ...

CEBU, Philippines (Reuters Life!) - The central Philippine island of Cebu is renowned as a holiday destination but these days it's the provincial jail not the balmy beaches that's drawing in the ...

Rapist and sex trafficker Peter Scully of Australia (R), seen handcuffed to another prisoner in a 2015 file photo, has been sentenced to 129 years in jail - Copyright ...