JAIL guards of the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila) have gone on a hunger strike to call for modernization of      the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor).

President Benigno Aquino 3rd had approved Republic Act 10575 (The Bureau of Corrections Act of 2013) that “mainly seeks to upgrade prison facilities, professionalize and restructure the bureau and increase the salary and benefits of its personnel.”

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