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The jailing of children in the Philippines is a significant problem. According to Amnesty International , over 50,000 children in the Philippines have been arrested and detained since 1995. Torture , rape and other forms of cruel and inhumane treatment are a part of everyday life for those children while they are incarcerated.
Incarceration numbers. Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Location Rates Number Afghanistan: 45 19,000 Albania: 168 4,565 Algeria: 217 94,749 American Samoa (USA) 538 301 Andorra: 60 51 Angola: 68 24,490 Anguilla (United Kingdom) 240 36 Antigua and Barbuda: 400 400 Argentina: 254 117,810 Armenia: 83 2,469 Aruba (Netherlands) 288 311 Australia
New Bilibid Prison The following is a list of prisons [ a ] in the Philippines . [ 1 ] As of 2021, there are seven national prisons and 433 jails in the country.
The prison was placed under the Bureau of Prisons and receive prisoners in Mindanao. [8] The Correctional Institution for Women was founded on November 27, 1929, by virtue of Act No. 3579 as the first and only prison for women in the Philippines. [8] Later, on January 21, 1932, the bureau opened the Davao Penal Colony in Southern Mindanao. [8]
Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s juvenile delinquents are today committed to private facilities, according to the most recent federal data from 2011, up from about 33 percent twelve years earlier. Over the past two decades, more than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through one of Slattery’s prisons, boot camps or detention ...
The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila is the main insular prison designed to house the prison population of the Philippines. [2] It is maintained by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) under the Department of Justice (DOJ). As of October 2022, the NBP housed 29,204 inmates, nearly five times its intended capacity of 6,345. [1]
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