(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday, Sept. 9, revealed some inmates at the New Bilibid Prison were “openly posting” on Facebook.
Lacson revealed this during the fourth joint Senate panel hearing the Good Conduct Time Allowance law, after the Bureau of Corrections said it was strict about banning cellphones for inmates in the national penitentiary.
Chief Supt. Maria Fe Marquez, director of the BuCor Directorate for Reformation, said cellphones were the number one contraband seized in the Muntinlupa facility.
Lacson pointed out a raid by authorities in August in Building 14, where the high-risk convicts are committed, yielded four cellphones, one from the cell of Raymond Dominguez, who was charged with the murder of the son of now-Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption president Arsenio Evangelista.
“There are other prisoners who openly post on FB. Yung iba high-profile cases,” he said, saying he was not at liberty to disclose the identity of such convicts as of yet.
