MSOpinion Building a new Bilibid prison 'As someone who did a documentary on the facility once quipped, the inside of the facility did not feel and look like a prison but more of a community with its own set of rules.' READ:
“…the inside of the facility did not feel and look like a prison but more of a community with its own set of rules”By all accounts, it has become a center of criminal activities like the illegal drug trade and murder for hire.It is again the setting of another criminal drama that is playing out in the media due to the murder of radio personality Percival Mabasa, better known as Percy Lapid.
Although not much government development has been undertaken since the original structure was built, this gives us an idea why the penitentiary became what it is today. Rich inmates, for instance, are able to build their own bungalows complete with air conditioning units with inmates serving them.We know of these things due to the many shakedowns that the BUCOR had been conducting like the recent display of 1,000 cans of beer allegedly being sold for P1, 000 each.
There is also a thriving underground economy inside the penitentiary which some say amounts to over P100 million and is the source of a lot of corruption in the BUCOR. These things alone should drive the government to appropriate funds for a new and modern prison facility. I read somewhere that the DOJ would need about P4 billion to start the construction of a new penitentiary somewhere in Nueva Ecija.One thing more, it would not be advisable to build the new facility there because there will be many objections from people living near the area because that area where the penitentiary is located is no longer considered remote and is now well developed.
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