The country's national penitentiary was relocated in 1940 from the Spanish-era prison in what is now downtown Manila to Muntinlupa.
WITH the assassination of journalist Percival Mabasa revealing, among other sordid things, that the country's New Bilibid Prison could be the headquarters of an appalling 'Murder Inc.,' Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla now has much public support behind him to pursue his plans to relocate the prison from its present location in Muntinlupa to at least three sites in the Visayas and Luzon.
JournalistJournalist Mabasa perhaps may have accused him of such bribery in past episodes of his radio program or was planning to do so. Bantag cleverly could have asked the Bilibid gangs to foot the bill for the assassination.I was told that the huge bribes generated by BuCor have been one major reason why proposals to relocate it have not been pushed through even if its area of 500 hectares would now be worth P200 billion, if sold to the private sector to fund the transfer.
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