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Facebooking from Maximum Security: Mobile Phones, Drugs and Firearms in Bilibid

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[Video Courtesy: Senate PRIB]

At the Senate hearing on the release of heinous crime convicts via GCTA, Sen. Lacson bared how prohibited items from mobile phones to illegal drugs to firearms are being used inside the maximum security area in the New Bilibid Prison. “Is this the kind of strictness in the policy of containing the entry or preventing the entry of contraband, especially mobile phones? There are other prisoners who openly post on Facebook. Ang iba high-profile cases.

Lacson also questioned the inconsistencies in the statements of at least one BuCor official during the hearing.

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