Thirty-two years since Jessica Soho first visited the New Bilibid Prison, the correctional facility still faces the same old problems inside its walls.
In an episode of "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho," the veteran broadcast journalist returned to Bilibid to see the conditions of the inmates following the controversies surrounding the prison.
According to Charlie Bucane, manager of Eastern Funeral, they keep the unclaimed bodies for 90 days, after which the BuCor takes them for burial. This is usually the case, but the cadavers piled when the facility failed to clear them in October and November. Some VIP inmates have also formed their own groups or gangs. According to retired general Gregorio Catapang Jr., the new officer-in-charge of the Bureau of Corrections, nowadays it is more apt to call them barangays.
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