As fireworks explode to mark the New Year beyond prison walls, a quieter transition is taking place inside facilities across ...

Sentencing spies to no more than six years in prison is “too light” a penalty, Lacson noted. The Revised Penal Code ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government must craft a new prisoner transfer system for Filipinos in jails abroad as it would be better for them to serve their sentences at home ...

Some 200 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli prisons 25th January, as part of the second batch of the first ...

More than 2000 hectares of the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa, Palawan will soon be turned into the Palawan ...

The father of NRL star Payne Haas has won a court fight to be released from a squalid camp in the Philippines and sent home ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered on Friday to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if China halts what he called its ''aggressive and coercive behavior'' in the disputed ...

just a few feet away from her isolation cell on an Indonesian prison island, where a 13-member firing squad was waiting. While she prayed, the Philippines government was wrapping up a lengthy ...

MANILA, Philippines — The minority leader in the House of Representatives yesterday proposed to the government a prisoner swap program with other countries, under which jailed overseas Filipino ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

A United States-based watchdog has launched an online database on more than 80 Roman Catholic priests who have been accused ...