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Palace considers Bilibid raids ‘effective’ despite NBI security breach

Wed, Jan 7, 2015

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/400143/news/nation/palace-considers-bilibid-raids-effective-despite-nbi-security-breach

Although high-profile inmates still managed to smuggle money after being transferred to new detention cells, Malacañang on Wednesday said the raids in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) can still be considered “effective.”

At a press briefing, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the Department of Justice (DOJ) succeeded in confiscating contrabands in the NBP, and in uncovering the lavish lifestyles of some inmates.

“Short-term, we are able to make sure that the VIP lifestyles are checked. They should not be living as barons in the penitentiary. We have stopped that,” Lacierda told reporters.

He added that the DOJ will still implement “long-term institutional reforms” at the country’s main penitentiary.

Last month, the DOJ and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted surprise inspections inside the NBP’s Maximum Security Compound, which houses convicted drug lords and notorious robbery gang leaders.

The raids revealed high-end detention areas containing prohibited facilities such as a bath tub, music studio, generator, air-conditioning units, game console and a private gym. Some P2 million and firearms were also recovered during the inspections.

Some high-profile inmates were transferred to detention cells at the NBI headquarters before these raids. These inmates, however, still managed to smuggle huge sums of cash in their new detention areas even after their transfer.

‘Tightening the noose’

Lacierda said the NBI at the very least managed to immediately discover the inmates’ new attempts to smuggle prohibited items inside their detention cells.

“The fact that you were able to apprehend shows that we’re tightening the noose on those ways of committing all these shenanigans within the detention areas,” the Palace official said.

He added that Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is already addressing “systemic and personnel” problems within the NBP.

“These things don’t happen without cooperation from those penitentiary officials. It’s both personnel and systemic,” Lacierda said.

“For that particular reason, if you noticed, Secretary Leila de Lima has been addressing reforms both systemic and personnel by removing people who are allegedly involved in those smuggling of contraband,” he added.

Lacierda further welcomed the Senate’s plan to probe the NBP, saying it can “introduce new policies towards improving the penal system.”

Senate Antonio Trillanes IV has filed a resolution calling for a review of the current correctional system that supposedly tolerated special treatment to inmates “with the end view of enacting remedial legislation that would prevent the recurrence of similar incidents.” —KBK, GMA News