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

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Philippine police say 11 detainees including the leader of a notorious bandit group have escaped from a jail by cutting through iron grills with a smuggled hacksaw. The ...

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 ...

Photos from inside Taguig City Jail appear to show YouTuber Vitaly Zdorovetskiy joining a baptism event, hinting at a ...

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 ...

The Ilocos Sur Provincial Jail became an independent department of the provincial government in 2021, enabling it to tailor ...

Regular jails were being prepared by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) to detain individuals if they are ...

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.

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 ...